عنوان

Areal diffusion and genetic inheritance :

(Number (ISBN

0198299818

(Number (ISBN

0199283087

(Number (ISBN

9780198299813

(Number (ISBN

9780199283088

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b750859

Title Proper

Areal diffusion and genetic inheritance :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

problems in comparative linguistics /

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald and R.M.W. Dixon.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

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Oxford University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2001.

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xvi, 453 pages :

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illustrations ;

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24 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Text of Note

1. Introduction / Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald and R.M.W. Dixon -- 2. Archaeology and the Historical Determinants of Punctuation in Language-Family Origins / Peter Bellwood -- 3. An Indo-European Linguistic Area and its Characteristics: Ancient Anatolia. Areal Diffusion as a Challenge to the Comparative Method? / Calvert Watkins -- 4. The Australian Linguistic Area / R.M.W. Dixon -- 5. Descent and Diffusion: The Complexity of the Pilbara Situation / Alan Dench -- 6. Contact-Induced Change in Oceanic Languages in North-West Melanesia / Malcolm Ross -- 7. Areal Diffusion, Genetic Inheritance, and Problems of Subgrouping: A North Arawak Case Study / Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald -- 8. Linguistic Diffusion in Present-Day East Anatolia: From Top to Bottom / Geoffrey Haig -- 9. The Role of Migration and Language Contact in the Development of the Sino-Tibetan Language Family / Randy J. LaPolla -- 10. On Genetic and Areal Linguistics in Mainland South-East Asia: Parallel Polyfunctionality of 'acquire' / N.J. Enfield -- 11. Genetic versus Contact Relationship: Prosodic Diffusibility in South-East Asian Languages / James A. Matisoff -- 12. Language Contact and Areal Diffusion in Sinitic Languages / Hilary Chappell -- 13. Areal Diffusion versus Genetic Inheritance: An African Perspective / Gerrit J. Dimmendaal -- 14. Convergence and Divergence in the Development of African Languages / Bernd Heine and Tania Kuteva -- 15. What Language Features Can Be 'Borrowed'? / Timothy Jowan Curnow.

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Text of Note

"This book considers how and why forms and meanings of different languages at different times may resemble one another. Its editors and authors aim (a) to explain and identify the relationship between areal diffusion and the genetic development of languages, and (b) to discover the means of distinguishing what may cause one language to share the characteristics of another. The introduction outlines the issues that underlie these aims, introduces the chapters which follow, and comments on recurrent conclusions by the contributors. The problems are formidable and the pitfalls numerous: for example, several of the authors draw attention to the inadequacy of the family tree diagram as the main metaphor for language relationship." "The authors range over Ancient Anatolia, Modern Anatolia, Australia, Amazonia, Oceania, Southeast and East Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa. The book includes an archaeologist's view on what material evidence offers to explain cultural and linguistic change, and a general discussion of which kinds of linguistic feature can and cannot be borrowed. The chapters are accessibly-written and illustrated by 20 maps. The book will interest all students of the causes and consequences of language change and evolution."--Jacket.

Areal linguistics.

Comparative linguistics.

Language spread.

Languages in contact.

Linguistic change.

Changement linguistique.

Diffusion des langues.

Langues en contact.

Linguistique comparée.

Linguistique géographique.

17.14 comparative linguistics.

17.15 historical linguistics.

Areal linguistics.

Areal linguistics.

Arealtypologie

Comparative linguistics.

Comparative linguistics.

Convergentiegebieden.

Interferenz

Language spread.

Language spread.

Languages in contact.

Languages in contact.

Linguistic change.

Linguistic change.

Sprachbund

Sprachgeografie

Sprachkontakt

Taalcontact.

Taalverandering.

Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft

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Edition

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Book number

Book number

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Aĭkhenvalʹd, A. I︠U︡., (Aleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna)

Dixon, Robert M. W.

Date of Transaction

20201204103547.0

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[Book]

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