Language Typology 1987

Abstract

1. General and specific tendencies in historical change of language type (by Yartseva, Viktoria N.) 2. Typology in the service of internal reconstruction: Saxalin Nivx (by Austerlitz, Robert) 3. Typology and phonological history (by Timberlake, Alan) 4. Diachronic typology and reconstruction: The Archaim of Germanic and American in light of the Glottalic Theory (by Gamkrelidze, Thomas V.) 5. Alignment typology and diachronic change (by Harris, Alice C.) 6. On the soource of the genitive in ergative languages (by Klimov, Georgij A.) 7. Some preconditions and typical traits of the Stative-Active language type (with reference to Proto-Indo- european) (by Nichols, Johanna) 8. Historical morphemics aand unit-order typology (by Vinogradov, Viktor A.) 9. Relative pronouns and P.I.E. Word order type in the context of the eurasiatic hypothesis (by Greenberg, Joseph H.) 10. Diachronic change and typology, as illustrated with languages of east and southeast Asia (by Solntseva, Nina V.) 11. Typology and change in Alaskan languages (by Krauss, Michael E.) 12. Principles of grammaticization: towards a diachronic typology (by Hopper, Paul J.) 13. Syntactic Residues (by Lehmann, Winfred P.) 14. References 15. Index