Preface

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Primes 1
5. Basic Typological units 19
6. Areal Phonetic typology in time 27
7. Lexico-semantic reconstruction and the linguistic paleontology of culture 43
8. Universals specials and typology 49
9. Commensurability of terms 55
10. Metalanguage 77
11. On the notion of language type 105
12. On typological shift 111
13. Discourse function and word order shift 123
14. On from and content in typology 141
15. The meaning-form correspondence in grammatical description 163
16. A survey of major Alaskan language types 169
17. References 187
18. Index 205