Patterns of Change - Change of Patterns
Linguistic Change and Reconstruction Methodology
1st Edition
Published on 6. February 2013
X, 343 pages
978-3-11-087189-0 (ISBN)
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Edition
Reprint 2012
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin/Boston
Germany
Publishing group
de Gruyter Mouton
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Illustrations
5 Ktn, 12 s/w Abbildungen, 14 s/w Tabellen
12 b/w ill., 14 b/w tbl., 5 maps
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16,77 MB
ISBN-13
978-3-11-087189-0 (9783110871890)
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Philip Baldi
Patterns of Change - Change of Patterns
Linguistic Change and Reconstruction Methodology
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11/1991
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De Gruyter Mouton
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Philip Baldi
Patterns of Change - Change of Patterns
Linguistic Change and Reconstruction Methodology
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Content
- Intro
- Preface
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Introduction: The comparative method
- American Indian Languages
- Summary report: American Indian languages and principles of language change
- The role of typology in American Indian historical linguistics
- Algonquian linguistic change and reconstruction
- Mayan languages and linguistic change
- Austronesian languages
- Summary report: Linguistic change and reconstruction methodology in the Austronesian language family
- The "aberrant" (vs. "exemplary") Melanesian languages
- Patterns of sound change in the Austronesian languages
- Indo-European languages
- Etymologies, equations, and comparanda: Types and values, and criteria for judgment
- Is the "comparative" method general or family-speciflc?
- Australian Languages
- Summary report: Linguistic change and reconstruction in the Australian language family
- Social parameters of linguistic change in an unstratified Aboriginal society
- The significance of pronouns in the history of Australian languages
- Altaic Languages
- Morphological clues to the relationships of Japanese and Korean
- Afro-Asiatic Languages
- A survey of Omotic grammemes
- The regularity of sound change: A Semitistic perspective
- Indexes
- Subject index
- Language index
- Author index
