Language typology and historical contingency : in honor of Johanna Nichols / edited by Balthasar Bickel [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bickel, Balthasar.

Series:

Typological studies in language ; v. 104.

Typological studies in language, 0167-7373 ; volume 104

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historical linguistics.

Typology (Linguistics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (520 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For nearly half a century, Yokuts languages, especially Yowlumni (Yawelmani), have served as a "testing ground" in theoretical phonology. However, the data cited in this literature are, more often than not, forms contrived using rules adduced in the principle descriptive work (Newman 1944) rather than actually attested forms. This paper examines the scope of this practice and its implications from the perspective of scientific methodology. It also suggests reasons why Yokuts languages in particular have attracted so much attention from phonologists.

Contents:

Discourse semantics and the form of the verb predicate in Karachay-Balkar : a corpus-based and experimental study / Andrej A. Kibrik

Typology and channel of communication : where do signed languages fit in? / Dan I. Slobin

Marking versus indexing : revisiting the Nichols marking-locus typology / Nicholas Evans & Eva Fenwick

Head-marking languages and linguistic theory / Robert D. Van Valin Jr.

Lessons of variability in clause coordination : evidence from North Caucasian languages / Aleksandr E. Kibrik

Noun classes grow on trees : noun classification in the North-East Caucasus / Keith Plaster, Maria Polinsky & Boris Harizanov

Affecting valence in Khumi / David A. Peterson

Capturing diversity in language acquisition research / Sabine Stoll & Balthasar Bickel

Who inherits what, when? : toward a theory of contact, substrates, and superimposition zones / Mark Donohue

Polysynthesis in the Arctic/Sub-Arctic : how recent is it? / Michael Fortescue

A (micro-)accretion zone in a remnant zone? : lower Fungom in areal-historical perspective / Jeff Good

A history of Iroquoian gender marking / Michael Cysouw

The Satem Shift, Armenian sisern, and the early Indo-European of the Balkans / Bill J. Darden

Penultimate lengthening in Bantu : analysis and spread / Larry M. Hyman

Culture and the spread of Slavic / Alan Timberlake

The syntax and pragmatics of Tungusic revisited / Lenore A. Grenoble

Some observations on typological features of hunter-gatherer languages / Michael Cysouw & Bernard Comrie

Typologizing phonetic precursors to sound change / Alan C.L. Yu

Distributional biases in language families / Balthasar Bickel

The morphology of imperatives in Lak : stem vowels in the second singular simplex transitive affirmative / Victor A. Friedman

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

Real data, contrived data, and the Yokuts Canon / William F. Weigel.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789027270801

9027270805

OCLC:

864551664