Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. List of tables ix
4. List of figures xv
5. List of contributors xvii
6. Acknowledgements xix
7. Chapter 1. When paradigms change 1
8. Part I. Paradigm change
9. Chapter 2. On the strength of morphological paradigms 23
10. Chapter 3. Derivational paradigms in diachrony and comparison 61
11. Chapter 4. On arguing from diachrony for paradigms 89
12. Chapter 5. Reconstructing the Niger-Congo Verb Extension Paradigm 103
13. Part II. The continuation of paradigms
14. Chapter 6. Perceived formal and functional equivalence 129
15. Chapter 7. Comparative consequences of the tongue root harmony analysis for proto-Tungusic, proto-Mongolic, and proto-Korean 141
16. Chapter 8. Old Japanese bigrade paradigms and Korean passives and causatives 177
17. Chapter 9. The Japanese inflectional paradigm in a Transeurasian perspective 197
18. Part III. The innovation of paradigms
19. Chapter 10. A Yakut copy of a Tungusic viewpoint aspect paradigm 235
20. Chapter 11. Amdo Altaic directives and comparatives based on the verb ‘to see’ 243
21. Chapter 12. Innovations and archaisms in Siberian Turkic spatial case paradigms 257
22. Chapter 13. Paradigm copying in Tungusic 287
23. Chapter 14. Ural-Altaic 311
24. Language index 337
25. Subject index 343