Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Part I. Setting the stage
4. Synchronic vs. diachronic approaches to typological hierarchies 3
5. Part II. Foundational issues
6. Chapter 1. Evolutionary Phonology and the life cycle of voiceless sonorants 31
7. Chapter 2. The Obligatory Coding Principle in diachronic perspective 59
8. Chapter 3. Deconstructing teleology 111
9. Part III. Hierarchical effects and their origins
10. Chapter 4. The development of referential hierarchy effects in Sahaptian 131
11. Chapter 5. Diachrony and the referential hierarchy in Old Irish 191
12. Chapter 6. From ergative case-marking to hierarchical agreement 217
13. Chapter 7. The direction(s) of analogical change in direct/inverse systems 257
14. Chapter 8. Are the Tupi-Guarani hierarchical indexing systems really motivated by the person hierarchy? 289
15. Chapter 9. Incipient hierarchical alignment in four Central Salish languages from the Proto-Salish middle 309
16. Part IV. Conflicting hierarchical patterns and how to deal with them
17. Chapter 10. Deictic and sociopragmatic effects in Tibeto-Burman SAP indexation 345
18. Chapter 11. Morphosyntactic coding of proper names and its implications for the Animacy Hierarchy 377
19. Chapter 12. Generic person marking in Japhug and other Gyalrong languages 403
20. Author index 425
21. Language Index 429
22. Subject Index 433