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.

Table of Contents

• 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