In:Language Typology and Historical Contingency: In honor of Johanna Nichols
Edited by Balthasar Bickel, Lenore A. Grenoble, David A. Peterson and Alan Timberlake
[Typological Studies in Language 104] 2013
► pp. v–vi
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Published online: 13 December 2013
https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.104.toc
https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.104.toc
Table of contents
Preface
Part I. Structures and typologies
Discourse semantics and the form of the verb predicate in Karachay-Balkar: A corpus-based and experimental study
Typology and channel of communication: Where do signed languages fit in
Marking versus indexing: Revisiting the Nichols marking-locus typology
Head-marking languages and linguistic theory
Lessons of variability in clause coordination: Evidence from North Caucasian languages
Noun classes grow on trees: Noun classification in the North-East Caucasus
Affecting valence in Khumi
Capturing diversity in language acquisition research
Part II. Distributions in time and space
Who inherits what, when? Toward a theory of contact, substrates, and superimposition zones
Polysynthesis in the Arctic/Sub-Arctic: How recent is it?
A (micro-)accretion zone in a remnant zone? Lower Fungom in areal-historical perspective
A history of Iroquoian gender marking
The satem shift, Armenian siseṙn, and the early Indo-European of the Balkans
Penultimate lengthening in Bantu: Analysis and spread
Culture and the spread of Slavic
The syntax and pragmatics of Tungusic revisited
Some observations on typological features of hunter-gatherer languages
Typologizing phonetic precursors to sound change
Distributional biases in language families
The morphology of imperatives in Lak: Stem vowels in the second singular simplex transitive affirmative
Subgrouping in Tibeto-Burman: Can an individual-identifying standard be developed? How do we factor in the history of migrations and language contact?
Part III. A (cautionary) note on methodology
Real data, contrived data, and the Yokuts Canon
Language index
Name index
Subject index
