Areal diffusion and genetic inheritance : problems in comparative linguistics / edited by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald and R. M. W. Dixon

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Idioma: Inglés Series Oxford linguisticsDetalles de publicación: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2001Descripción: xvi, 453 p. : il. (incl. mapas, tablas) ; 24 cmISBN:

0198299818

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Clasificación CDD:

410.2 A678 2001 21

Contenidos:

Archaelogy and the historical determinants of punctuation in lenguage-family origins / Peter Bellwood. -- An Indo-European linguistic area and its characteristics: Ancient Anatolia. Areal difusion as a challenge to the comparative method? / Calvert Watkins. -- The Australian linguistic area / R. M W. Dixon. -- Descent and diffusion: The complexity of the Pilbara situation / Alan Dench. -- Contact-induced change in oceanic languages in North-West Melanesia / Malcolm Ross. -- Areal diffusion, genetic inheritance, and problems of subgrouping: A North Arawak Case Study. -- Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald. -- Linguistic diffusion in present-day East Anatolia: From Top to Botton / Geoffrey Haig. -- The role of migration and language contact in the development of the Sino-Tibetan language family / Randy J. LaPolla. -- On genetic and areal linguistics in Mainland South-East Asia: Parallel polyfunctionality of 'Acquire' / N. J. Enfield. -- Genetic versus contact-relationship: Prosodic diffusibility in South-East Asian languages / James A. Matisoff. -- Language contact and areal diffusio in sinitic languages / Hilary Chappell. -- Areal diffusion versus genwetic inheritance: An African perspective / Gerrit J. Dimmendaal. -- Convergence and divergence in the development of African languages / Bernd Heine and Tania Kuteva. -- What language features Can Be 'Borrowed'? / Timothy Jowan Curnow.