Linguistic Reconstruction and Typology / / ed. by Jacek Fisiak.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 1990 - 1999
• MitwirkendeR: Campbell, Lyle,; Chapman, Carol,; Gamkrelidze, Thomas V.,; Gvozdanović, Jadranka,; Gąsiorowski, Piotr,; Hewson, John,; Hickey, Raymond,; Kitson, Peter R.,; Koerner, E. F. Konrad,; Luschützky, Hans Christian,; Mańczak, Witold,; Picard, Marc,; Rischel, Jørgen,; Ronneberger-Sibold, Elke,; Wurff, Wim van der,
• HerausgeberIn: Fisiak, Jacek,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©1996
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 96
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (368 p.)

Table of Contents

• I-IV
• Preface
• List of participants
• Contents
• Toward a history of linguistic typology
• Language typology and linguistic reconstruction
• Typological and areal issues in reconstruction
• Diminutive plural infixation and the "West Franconian" problem
• Long syllabic consonants in Proto-Indo-European
• Typology and evaluation of linguistic reconstruction
• The typological shift to configurational syntax in Indo-European languages
• Sound change and typological shift: Initial mutation in Celtic
• Reconstruction, typology, and the "original homeland" of the Indo-Europeans
• Typological paradoxes in phonological reconstruction: The case of Polabian reduced vowels
• Linguistic reconstruction, typology, and criteria of truth
• On typological plausibility and natural sound change
• Typology and reconstruction of numeral systems: The case of Austroasiatic
• Typology and the diachronic evolution of German morphosyntax
• Syntactic reconstruction and reconstructibility: Proto-Indo-European and the typology of null objects
• Index of names
• Index of languages and dialects