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

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

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Description 1 online resource (212 pages) : illustrations Series Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 67 Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 67 Contents General and specific tendencies in historical change of language type / Viktoria N. Yartseva -- Typology in the service of internal reconstruction : Saxalin Nivx / Robert Austerlitz -- Typology and phonological history / Alan Timberlake -- Diachronic typology and reconstruction : the "archaism" of Germanic and Armenian in light of the glottalic theory / Thomas V. Gamkrelidze -- Alignment typology and diachronic change / Alice C. Harris -- On the source of the genitive in ergative languages / Georgij A. Klimov -- Some preconditions and typical traits of the stative-active language type (with reference to proto-Indo-European) / Johanna Nichols -- Historical morphemics and unit-order typology / Viktor A. Vinogradov -- Relative pronouns and P.I.E. word order type in the content of the Eurasiatic hypothesis / Joseph H. Greenberg Diachronic change and typology, as illustrated with languages of East and Southeast Asia / Nina V. Solntseva -- Typology and change in Alaskan languages / Michael Krauss -- Principles of grammaticization : towards a diachronic typology / Paul J. Hopper -- Syntactic residues / Winfred P. Lehmann 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-201) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject Typology (Linguistics) -- Congresses Historical linguistics -- Congresses LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Syntax. Historical linguistics Typology (Linguistics) Sprachtypologie Kongress Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings Form Electronic book Author Lehmann, Winfred P. (Winfred Philipp), 1916-2007 LC no. 90000030 ISBN 9789027278319 9027278318 1283313642 9781283313643 9786613313645 6613313645

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