Areal diffusion and genetic inheritance : problems in comparative linguistics /
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| Imprint: | New York : Oxford University Press, 2001. |
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| Description: | xvi, 453 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4593390 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Archaeology and the Historical Determinants of Punctuation in Language Family Origins
- 3. An Indo-European Linguistic Area and its Characteristics: Ancient Anatolia. Areal Diffusion as a Challenge to the Comparative Method?
- 4. The Australian Linguistic Area
- 5. Descent and Diffusion: The Complexity of the Pilbara Situation
- 6. Contact-Induced Change in Oceanic Languages in Northwest Melanesia
- 7. Areal Diffusion, Genetic Inheritance and Problems of Subgrouping: A North Arawak Case Study
- 8. Language Diffusion in Present-Day East Anatolia: From Top to Bottom
- 9. The Role of Migration and Language Contact in the Development of the Sino-Tibetan Language Family
- 10. On Genetic and Areal Linguistics in Mainland Southeast Asia: Parallel Polyfunctionality of 'Acquire'
- 11. Genetic Versus Contact Relationship: Prosodic Diffusibility in Southeast Asian Languages
- 12. Language Contact and Areal Diffusion in Sinitic Languages
- 13. Areal Diffusion Versus Genetic Inheritance: An African Perspective
- 14. Convergence and Divergence in the Development of African Languages
- 15. What Language Features can be 'Borrowed'?
