Patterns of Change - Change of Patterns: Linguistic Change and Reconstruction Methodology

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 1991

Patterns of Change - Change of Patterns

Linguistic Change and Reconstruction Methodology

Edited by: Philip Baldi

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110871890

Contents

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	v
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xi
Introduction: The comparative method Philip Baldi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
American Indian Languages
Summary report: American Indian languages and principles of language change Lyle Campbell and Ives Goddard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
The role of typology in American Indian historical linguistics Marianne Mithun Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
Algonquian linguistic change and reconstruction Ives Goddard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
Mayan languages and linguistic change Lyle Campbell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
Austronesian languages
Summary report: Linguistic change and reconstruction methodology in the Austronesian language family Robert Blust Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
The “aberrant” (vs. “exemplary”) Melanesian languages George W. Grace Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
Patterns of sound change in the Austronesian languages Robert Blust Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
Indo-European languages
Etymologies, equations, and comparanda: Types and values, and criteria for judgment Calvert Watkins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
Is the “comparative” method general or family-specific? Henry M. Hoenigswald Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
Australian Languages
Summary report: Linguistic change and reconstruction in the Australian language family R. M. W. Dixon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
Social parameters of linguistic change in an unstratified Aboriginal society Steve Johnson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
The significance of pronouns in the history of Australian languages Barry J. Blake Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
Altaic Languages
Morphological clues to the relationships of Japanese and Korean Samuel E. Martin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
Afro-Asiatic Languages
A survey of Omotic grammemes M. Lionel Bender Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
The regularity of sound change: A Semitistic perspective Stephen J. Lieberman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	299
Indexes
Subject index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	325
Language index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	332
Author index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	339
Backmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	344

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Edition: Reprint 2012
Pages
- Front matter: 10
- Main content: 343
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 12
- Tables: 14
- Other: 5 Ktn
Keywords: Sprachwandel; Rekonstruktionsmethode; Linguistik

eBook

Published: February 6, 2013
ISBN: 9783110871890

Hardcover

Published: November 1, 1991
ISBN: 9783110134056