Editors’ introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Editors’ introduction 1
4. Chapter 1. Signs of prehistoric language shifts involving Unangam Tunuu (Aleut) 8
5. Chapter 2. Early compound accent in Japanese Tōkyō -type dialects 36
6. Chapter 3. Phylogenetic signal in the lexicon 59
7. Chapter 4. Solving Galton’s problem 74
8. Chapter 5. Re-examining initial geminates 109
9. Chapter 6. Recurrent change in pronouns 146
10. Chapter 7. The role of geography and migration in the branching and spread of the Japonic language family 172
11. Chapter 8. Iconicity principles from an evolutionary perspective 194
12. Chapter 9. Modality across semantic spaces 216
13. Chapter 10. Something out of nothing 240
14. Chapter 11. The diachronic development of postverbal dé 得 in Chinese 260
15. Chapter 12. Food, contact phenomena and reconstruction in Oriental Berber 283
16. Chapter 13. A cognitive-typological perspective on the origins of causative‑applicative polysemy 330
17. Index 367