Contributions to historical linguistics
Subtitle: issues and materials
By: edited by Frans van Coetsem and Linda R. Waugh.
Contributors: Coetsem, Frans van.; Waugh, Linda R.
Series: Cornell linguistic contributions ;; v. 3
Publisher: E.J. Brill
Published: 1980
Place of publication: Leiden
Language: eng
Number of pages: 339
Subjects: Historical linguistics.
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Table of contents: title: Some proposals on Old Chinese phonology / William H. Baxter III; title: Proto-Chinese and Sino-Tibetan / Nicholas C. Bodman; title: The reconstruction of upper register nasals and laterals in proto-Cantonese / John McCoy; title: The genealogy of the French language / Frederick B. Agard; title: The gradual decline of case in Romance substantives / Robert A. Hall, Jr.; title: Politics and national language in Albania / Gordon M. Messing; title: Germanic verbal ablaut and its development / Frans van Coetsem.