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In:Language Typology 1985: Papers from the Linguistic Typology Symposium, Moscow, 9–13 Dec. 1985
Edited by Winfred P. Lehmann
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 47] 1986
► pp. v–vi

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Published online: 1 January 1986
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Table of contents

Prefacevii
Primes1
Basic Typological units19
Areal Phonetic typology in time: North and East Asia27
Lexico-semantic reconstruction and the linguistic paleontology of culture43
Universals specials and typology49
Commensurability of terms55
Metalanguage77
On the notion of language type105
On typological shift111
Discourse function and word order shift: A typological study of the VS/SV alternation123
On from and content in typology141
The meaning-form correspondence in grammatical description163
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A survey of major Alaskan language types169
References187
Index205
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