
Language Change and Linguistic Diversity
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- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
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- List of Figures and Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- In Memoriam
- List of Abbreviations
- 1 Language Change and Diversity at the Crossroads of Historical Linguistics, Language Documentation, and Linguistic Typology
- 2 Using the Acoustic Correlates of Voice Quality as Explanations for the Changes in the Descriptions of Xinkan Glottalized Consonants
- 3 Variation and Change in the Distribution of *-(V)n and *-(V)w in Kaqchikel
- 4 Origins of Metathesis in Batsbi, Part II: Intransitive Verbs
- 5 Some Remarks on Etymological Opacity in Austronesian Languages
- 6 The Relationship between Aquitanian and Basque: Achievements and Challenges of the Comparative Method in a Context of Poor Documentation
- 7 Evidence, New and Old, Against the Late *k(') & *ch(') Areal Shift Hypothesis
- 8 Are All Language Isolates Equal? The Case of Mapudungun
- 9 The Historical Linguistics and Archaeology of Ancient North America: "A Linguistic Look" at the Hopewell
- 10 The Lenguas de Bolivia Project: Background and Further Prospects
- 11 The Typology of Grammatical Relations in Tuparian Languages with Special Focus on Akuntsú
- 12 Meskwaki (Algonquian) Evidence against Basic Word Order and Configurational Models of Argument Roles
- 13 The Syntax of Alignment: An Emergentist Typology
- Subject and Scholar Index
- Languages and Linguistic Families Index
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