Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures and Tables vii
4. Notes on Contributors ix
5. In Memoriam xiv
6. List of Abbreviations xv
7. 1 Language Change and Diversity at the Crossroads of Historical Linguistics, Language Documentation, and Linguistic Typology 1
8. 2 Using the Acoustic Correlates of Voice Quality as Explanations for the Changes in the Descriptions of Xinkan Glottalized Consonants 19
9. 3 Variation and Change in the Distribution of *-(V)n and *-(V)w in Kaqchikel 47
10. 4 Origins of Metathesis in Batsbi, Part II: Intransitive Verbs 72
11. 5 Some Remarks on Etymological Opacity in Austronesian Languages 87
12. 6 The Relationship between Aquitanian and Basque: Achievements and Challenges of the Comparative Method in a Context of Poor Documentation 105
13. 7 Evidence, New and Old, Against the Late *k(’) > *ch(’) Areal Shift Hypothesis 130
14. 8 Are All Language Isolates Equal? The Case of Mapudungun 164
15. 9 The Historical Linguistics and Archaeology of Ancient North America: “A Linguistic Look” at the Hopewell 187
16. 10 The Lenguas de Bolivia Project: Background and Further Prospects 206
17. 11 The Typology of Grammatical Relations in Tuparian Languages with Special Focus on Akuntsú 224
18. 12 Meskwaki (Algonquian) Evidence against Basic Word Order and Configurational Models of Argument Roles 242
19. 13 The Syntax of Alignment: An Emergentist Typology 260
20. Subject and Scholar Index 281
21. Languages and Linguistic Families Index 285