Language typology and historical contingency in honor of Johanna Nichols Edited by Balthasar Bickel, Leonore A. Grenoble, David A. Peterson, Alan Timberlake

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Part I. Structures and typologies. -- Discourse semantics and the form of the verb predicate in Karachay-Balkar: A corpus-based and experimental study / Andrej A. Kibrik. -- Typology and channel of communication: Where do signed languages fit in / Dan I. Slobin. -- Marking versus indexing: Revisiting the Nichols marking-locus typology / Nicholas Evans and Eva Fenwick. -- Head-marking languages and linguistic theory / Robert D. Van Valin Jr. -- Lessons of variability in clause coordination: Evidence from North Caucasian languages / Aleksandr E. Kibrik. -- Noun classes grow on trees: Noun classification in the North-East Caucasus / Keith Plaster, Maria Polinsky and Boris Harizanov. -- Affecting valence in Khumi / David A. Peterson. -- Capturing diversity in language acquisition research / Sabine Stoll and Balthasar Bickel. -- Part II. Distributions in time and space. -- Who inherits what, when? Toward a theory of contact, substrates, and superimposition zones / Mark Donohue. -- Polysynthesis in the Arctic/Sub-Arctic: How recent is it? / Michael Fortescue. -- A (micro-)accretion zone in a remnant zone? Lower Fungom in areal-historical perspective / Jeff Good. -- A history of Iroquoian gender marking / Michael Cysouw. -- The satem shift, Armenian siseṙn, and the early Indo-European of the Balkans / Bill J. Darden. -- Penultimate lengthening in Bantu: Analysis and spread / Larry M. Hyman. -- Culture and the spread of Slavic / Alan Timberlake. -- The syntax and pragmatics of Tungusic revisited / Lenore A. Grenoble. -- Some observations on typological features of hunter-gatherer languages / Michael Cysouw and Bernard Comrie. -- Typologizing phonetic precursors to sound change / Alan C.L. Yu. -- Distributional biases in language families / Balthasar Bickel. -- The morphology of imperatives in Lak: Stem vowels in the second singular simplex transitive affirmative / Victor A. Friedman. -- Subgrouping in Tibeto-Burman: Can an individual-identifying standard be developed? How do we factor in the history of migrations and language contact? / Randy J. LaPolla. -- Part III. A (cautionary) note on methodology. -- Real data, contrived data, and the Yokuts Canon / William F. Weigel.

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