Alan Timberlake

List of John Benjamins publications in which Alan Timberlake is involved.

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Language Typology and Historical Contingency: In honor of Johanna Nichols

Edited by Balthasar Bickel, Lenore A. Grenoble, David A. Peterson and Alan Timberlake

What is the range of diversity in linguistic types, what are the geographical distributions for the attested types, and what explanations, based on shared history or universals, can account for these distributions? This collection of articles by prominent scholars in typology seeks to address these… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 104] 2013. viii, 512 pp.

Articles (6) | Order by:

Timberlake, Alan 2013 Culture and the spread of Slavic Language Typology and Historical Contingency: In honor of Johanna Nichols, Bickel, Balthasar, Lenore A. Grenoble, David A. Peterson and Alan Timberlake (eds.), pp. 331–356 | Article

Slavic peoples, along with their Slavic language, spread widely and rapidly in the second half of the first millennium ad to inhabit territory from the Dnepr and Danube in the south to the North Sea and over to the upper Volga in the north. The present discussion locates the origin of the spread… read more

Nichols, Johanna and Alan Timberlake 1991 Grammaticalization as retextualization Approaches to Grammaticalization: Volume I. Theoretical and methodological issues, Traugott, Elizabeth Closs and Bernd Heine (eds.), pp. 129–146 | Article

Timberlake, Alan 1990 Typology and phonological history Language Typology 1987: Systematic Balance in Language, Lehmann, Winfred P. (ed.), pp. 35–56 | Article

Timberlake, Alan 1990 The Aspectual Case of Predicative Nouns in Lithuanian Texts Verbal Aspect in Discourse, Thelin, Nils B. (ed.), pp. 325–348 | Article

Timberlake, Alan 1986 Metalanguage Language Typology 1985: Papers from the Linguistic Typology Symposium, Moscow, 9–13 Dec. 1985, Lehmann, Winfred P. (ed.), pp. 77–104 | Article

Timberlake, Alan 1982 Invariance and the Syntax of Russian Aspect Tense-Aspect: Between semantics & pragmatics, Hopper, Paul J. (ed.), pp. 305–332 | Article