Diachronic, areal, and typological Linguistics

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Frontmatter -- EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION -- CONTENTS -- MASTER LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- PART ONE: INTRODUCTORY -- THE HISTORY OF LANGUAGE CLASSIFICATION -- PART TWO: METHODOLOGICAL -- INTRODUCTORY REMARKS -- THE COMPARATIVE METHOD -- INTERNAL RECONSTRUCTION -- MATHEMATICAL DEVELOPMENTS IN LEXICOSTATISTIC THEORY -- ON COMPARATIVE LINGUISTICS: THE CASE OF GRASSMANN'S LAW -- AREAL LINGUISTICS: SOME GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS -- THE TYPOLOGICAL METHOD -- THE SOCIAL SETTING OF LINGUISTIC CHANGE -- WRITTEN RECORDS AND DECIPHERMENT -- PART THREE: CASE STUDIES -- INTRODUCTORY REMARKS -- OTOMANGUEAN ISOGLOSSES -- INTERNAL RECONSTRUCTION AND FINNOUGRIC (FINNISH) -- THE ROMANCE DATA OF THE PILOT STUDIES FOR GLOTTOCHRONOLOGY -- JAPANESE DIALECTS -- DEEP-SURFACE CANONICAL DISPARITIES IN RELATION TO ANALYSIS AND CHANGE: AN AUSTRALIAN EXAMPLE -- AREAL LINGUISTICS AND MIDDLE AMERICA -- DIACHRONIC TYPOLOGY OF PHILIPPINE VOWEL SYSTEMS -- SOME ASPECTS OF DECREOLIZATION IN CREOLE FRENCH -- LINEAR B -- ALTAIC LINGUISTIC RECONSTRUCTION AND CULTURE -- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES -- INDEX OF NAMES -- INDEX OF LANGUAGES AND WRITING SYSTEMS

Product details

• Assisted by: Henry M. Hoenigswald (Editor), Henr M Hoenigswald (Editor), Henry M Hoenigswald (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2019
• EAN: 9783111054414
• ISBN: 978-3-11-105441-4
• No. of pages: 604
• Dimensions: 210 mm x 44 mm x 280 mm
• Weight: 1733 g
• Illustrations: Num. figs.
• Series: Current Trends in Linguistics
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics