Language typology and historical contingency
Subtitle: in honor of Johanna Nichols
By: edited by Balthasar Bickel, University of Zurich, Lenore A. Grenoble, University of Chicago, David A. Peterson, Dartmouth College, and Alan Timberlake, University of California, Berkley and Columbia University
Contributors: Nichols, Johanna, honouree
Series: Typological studies in language -- volume 104; Typological studies in language -- v. 104.
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company; Benjamins Publishing Company, John
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9789027206855; 9789027270801
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Typology (Linguistics); Historical linguistics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Discourse semantics and the form of the verb predicate in Karachay-Balkar : a corpus-based and experimental study / Andrej A. Kibrik; title: Typology and channel of communication : where do signed languages fit in? / Dan I. Slobin; title: Marking versus indexing : revisiting the Nichols marking-locus typology / Nicholas Evans & Eva Fenwick; title: Head-marking languages and linguistic theory / Robert D. Van Valin Jr.; title: Lessons of variability in clause coordination : evidence from North Caucasian languages / Aleksandr E. Kibrik; title: Noun classes grow on trees : noun classification in the North-East Caucasus / Keith Plaster, Maria Polinsky & Boris Harizanov; title: Affecting valence in Khumi / David A. Peterson; title: Capturing diversity in language acquisition research / Sabine Stoll & Balthasar Bickel; title: Who inherits what, when? : toward a theory of contact, substrates, and superimposition zones / Mark Donohue; title: Polysynthesis in the Arctic/Sub-Arctic : how recent is it? / Michael Fortescue; title: A (micro-)accretion zone in a remnant zone? : lower Fungom in areal-historical perspective / Jeff Good; title: A history of Iroquoian gender marking / Michael Cysouw; title: The Satem Shift, Armenian sisern, and the early Indo-European of the Balkans / Bill J. Darden; title: Penultimate lengthening in Bantu : analysis and spread / Larry M. Hyman; title: Culture and the spread of Slavic / Alan Timberlake; title: The syntax and pragmatics of Tungusic revisited / Lenore A. Grenoble; title: Some observations on typological features of hunter-gatherer languages / Michael Cysouw & Bernard Comrie; title: Typologizing phonetic precursors to sound change / Alan C.L. Yu; title: Distributional biases in language families / Balthasar Bickel; title: The morphology of imperatives in Lak : stem vowels in the second singular simplex transitive affirmative / Victor A. Friedman; title: Subgrouping in Tibeto-Burman : can an individual-identifying standard be developed? how do we factor in the history of migrations and language contact? / Randy J. LaPolla; title: Real data, contrived data, and the Yokuts Canon / William F. Weigel.