Language index

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Part I. Structures and typologies
5. Discourse semantics and the form of the verb predicate in Karachay-Balkar 3
6. Typology and channel of communication 47
7. Marking versus indexing 69
8. Head-marking languages and linguistic theory 91
9. Lessons of variability in clause coordination 125
10. Noun classes grow on trees 153
11. Affecting valence in Khumi 171
12. Capturing diversity in language acquisition research 195
13. Part II. Distributions in time and space
14. Who inherits what, when? 219
15. Polysynthesis in the Arctic/Sub-Arctic 241
16. A (micro-)accretion zone in a remnant zone? 265
17. A history of Iroquoian gender marking 283
18. The satem shift, Armenian siseṙn, and the early Indo-European of the Balkans 299
19. Penultimate lengthening in Bantu 309
20. Culture and the spread of Slavic 331
21. The syntax and pragmatics of Tungusic revisited 357
22. Some observations on typological features of hunter-gatherer languages 383
23. Typologizing phonetic precursors to sound change 395
24. Distributional biases in language families 415
25. The morphology of imperatives in Lak 445
26. Subgrouping in Tibeto-Burman 463
27. Part III. A (cautionary) note on methodology
28. Real data, contrived data, and the Yokuts Canon 477
29. Language index 495
30. Name index 499
31. Subject index 505