Syntactic Residues

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. Foreword ix
4. General and specific tendencies in historical change of language type 1
5. Typology in the service of internal reconstruction 17
6. Typology and phonological history 35
7. Diachronic typology and reconstruction 57
8. Alignment typology and diachronic change 67
9. On the soource of the genitive in ergative languages 91
10. Some preconditions and typical traits of the Stative-Active language type ( with reference to Proto-Indo- european ) 95
11. Historical morphemics aand unit-order typology 115
12. Relative pronouns and P.I.E. Word order type in the context of the eurasiatic hypothesis 123
13. Diachronic change and typology, as illustrated with languages of east and southeast Asia 139
14. Typology and change in Alaskan languages 147
15. Principles of grammaticization 157
16. Syntactic Residues 171
17. References 189
18. Index 203