Linguistic Change and Reconstruction Methodology / / ed. by Philip Baldi.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 1990 - 1999
• MitwirkendeR: Baldi, Philip,; Bammesberger, Alfred,; Beekes, Robert S. P.,; Bender, M. Lionel,; Blake, Barry J.,; Blust, Robert,; Bomhard, Allan R.,; Campbell, Lyle,; Dixon, R. M. W.,; Dyen, Isidore,; Faber, Alice,; Gibson, Jeanne D.,; Goddard, Ives,; Grace, George W.,; Heath, Jeffrey,; Hetzron, Robert,; Hodge, Carleton Τ.,; Hoenigswald, Henry M.,; Johnson, Steve,; Langdon, Margaret,; Leer, Jeff,; Lieberman, Stephen J.,; Martin, Samuel E.,; Mithun, Marianne,; Schmalstieg, William R.,; Schuh, Russell G.,; Starosta, Stanley,; Unger, J. Marshall,; Watkins, Calvert,; Whitman, John,; Zorc, R. David,; Ο\x27Grady, Geoff Ν.,
• HerausgeberIn: Baldi, Philip,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©1990
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 45
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (752 p.) :; Num. figs. and tabs.
• Other title: I-IV --; Preface --; Contributors --; Introduction: The comparative method --; 1. American Indian Languages --; Summary report: American Indian languages and principles of language change --; The role of typology in American Indian historical linguistics --; Morphosyntax and problems of reconstruction in Yuman and Hokan --; Tlingit: A portmanteau language family? --; Algonquian linguistic change and reconstruction --; Mayan languages and linguistic change --; 2. Austronesian Languages --; Summary report: Linguistic change and reconstruction methodology in the Austronesian language family --; The "aberrant" (vs. "exemplary") Melanesian languages --; The Austronesian monosyllabic root, radical or phonestheme --; Ergativity east and west --; Homomeric lexical classification --; Patterns of sound change in the Austronesian languages --; 3. Indo-European Languages --; Summary report of the Indo-European panel --; Phonology and morphology at the crossroads --; Etymologies, equations, and comparanda: Types and values, and criteria for judgment --; The historical grammar of Greek: A case study in the results of comparative linguistics --; A survey of the comparative phonology of the so-called "Nostratic" languages --; A few issues of contemporary Indo-European linguistics --; Is the "comparative" method general or family-specific? --; The homomeric argument for a Slavo-Germanic subgroup of Indo-European --; 4. Australian Languages --; Summary report: Linguistic change and reconstruction in the Australian language family --; Verbal inflection and macro-subgroupings of Australian languages: The search for conjugation markers in non-Pama-Nyungan --; Social parameters of linguistic change in an unstratified Aboriginal society --; The significance of pronouns in the history of Australian languages --; Prenasalization in Pama-Nyungan --; 5. Altaic Languages --; Summary report of the Altaic panel --; Morphological clues to the relationships of Japanese and Korean --; A rule of medial *-r- loss in pre-Old Japanese --; Japanese and what other Altaic languages? --; 6. Afro-Asiatic Languages --; Summary report: Linguistic change and reconstruction in the Afro-Asiatic languages --; Dialectal variation in Proto-Afroasiatic --; Re-employment of grammatical morphemes in Chadic: Implications for language history --; Interpretation of orthographic forms --; The role of Egyptian within Afroasiatic (/Lislakh) --; A survey of Omotic grammemes --; The regularity of sound change: A Semitistic perspective --; Subject index --; Language index --; Author index --; 753-754
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110886092; 9783110636895
• ISSN: 1861-4302
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110886092
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Philip Baldi.