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These papers from the 1987 Typology Symposium - a follow-up to the 1985 meeting in Moscow - deal with the relevance of typology for historical linguistics. Its application in understanding phonological and grammatical change is examined for a variety of languages. Its relevance for application of the comparative method and the method of internal reconstruction is noted with reference to the glottalic theory and problems in other language families. Among the several approaches, alignment typology is especially examined, with languages defined as accusative, ergative or stative-active - an approach to which linguists of the USSR have made important contributions in recent years.

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Author:   Winfred P. Lehmann
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   67
Weight:   0.440kg
ISBN:  

9789027235640

ISBN 10:   9027235643
Pages:   212
Publication Date:   01 January 1990
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

1. General and specific tendencies in historical change of language type (by Yartseva, Viktoria N.); 2. Typology in the service of internal reconstruction: Saxalin Nivx (by Austerlitz, Robert); 3. Typology and phonological history (by Timberlake, Alan); 4. Diachronic typology and reconstruction: The Archaim of Germanic and American in light of the Glottalic Theory (by Gamkrelidze, Thomas V.); 5. Alignment typology and diachronic change (by Harris, Alice C.); 6. On the soource of the genitive in ergative languages (by Klimov, Georgij A.); 7. Some preconditions and typical traits of the Stative-Active language type (with reference to Proto-Indo- european) (by Nichols, Johanna); 8. Historical morphemics aand unit-order typology (by Vinogradov, Viktor A.); 9. Relative pronouns and P.I.E. Word order type in the context of the eurasiatic hypothesis (by Greenberg, Joseph H.); 10. Diachronic change and typology, as illustrated with languages of east and southeast Asia (by Solntseva, Nina V.); 11. Typology and change in Alaskan languages (by Krauss, Michael E.); 12. Principles of grammaticization: towards a diachronic typology (by Hopper, Paul J.); 13. Syntactic Residues (by Lehmann, Winfred P.); 14. References; 15. Index

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