Language typology 1987 : systematic balance in language : papers from the Linguistic Typology Symposium, Berkeley, 1-3 December 1987 / edited by Winfred P. Lehmann.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Linguistic Typology Symposium, Corporate Author.

Contributor:

Lehmann, Winfred P.

Conference Name:

Linguistic Typology Symposium (1987 : Berkeley, Calif.)

Linguistic Typology Symposium.

Series:

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory ; Series IV, v. 67.

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, 0304-0763 ; v. 67

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Typology (Linguistics)--Congresses.

Typology (Linguistics).

Historical linguistics--Congresses.

Historical linguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (222 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1990.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

These papers from the 1987 Typology Symposium a follow-up to the 1985 meeting in Moscow deal with the relevance of typology for historical linguistics. Its application in understanding phonological and grammatical change is examined for a variety of languages. Its relevance for application of the comparative method and the method of internal reconstruction is noted with reference to the glottalic theory and problems in other language families. Among the several approaches, alignment typology is especially examined, with languages defined as accusative, ergative or stative-active an approach to

Contents:

LANGUAGE TYPOLOGY 1987 SYSTEMATIC BALANCE IN LANGUAGE; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Table of contents; Foreword; GENERAL AND SPECIFIC TENDENCIES IN HISTORICAL CHANGE OF LANGUAGE TYPE; TYPOLOGY IN THE SERVICE OF INTERNAL RECONSTRUCTION: Saxalin Nivx; TYPOLOGY AND PHONOLOGICAL HISTORY; DIACHRONIC TYPOLOGY AND RECONSTRUCTION: The ""Archaism"" of Germanic and Armenian in Light of the Glottalic Theory; ALIGNMENT TYPOLOGY AND DIACHRONIC CHANGE; ON THE SOURCE OF THE GENITIVE IN ERGATIVE LANGUAGES

SOME PRECONDITIONS AND TYPICAL TRAITS OF THE STATIVE-ACTIVE LANGUAGE TYPE (with reference to Proto-Indo-European)HISTORICAL MORPHEMICS AND UNIT-ORDER TYPOLOGY; RELATIVE PRONOUNS AND P.I.E. WORD ORDER TYPE IN THE CONTEXT OF THE EURASIATIC HYPOTHESIS; DIACHRONIC CHANGE AND TYPOLOGY, as Illustrated with Languages of East and Southeast Asia; TYPOLOGY AND CHANGE IN ALASKAN LANGUAGES; PRINCIPLES OF GRAMMATICIZATION: Towards a Diachronic Typology; SYNTACTIC RESIDUES; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-201) and index.

ISBN:

1-283-31364-2

9786613313645

90-272-7831-8

OCLC:

759101359