Contents

Chapters in this book

1. I-IV I
2. Preface V
3. List of participants VII
4. Contents IX
5. Toward a history of linguistic typology 1
6. Language typology and linguistic reconstruction 25
7. Typological and areal issues in reconstruction 49
8. Diminutive plural infixation and the "West Franconian" problem 73
9. Long syllabic consonants in Proto-Indo-European 89
10. Typology and evaluation of linguistic reconstruction 103
11. The typological shift to configurational syntax in Indo-European languages 123
12. Sound change and typological shift: Initial mutation in Celtic 133
13. Reconstruction, typology, and the "original homeland" of the Indo-Europeans 183
14. Typological paradoxes in phonological reconstruction: The case of Polabian reduced vowels 241
15. Linguistic reconstruction, typology, and criteria of truth 257
16. On typological plausibility and natural sound change 267
17. Typology and reconstruction of numeral systems: The case of Austroasiatic 273
18. Typology and the diachronic evolution of German morphosyntax 313
19. Syntactic reconstruction and reconstructibility: Proto-Indo-European and the typology of null objects 337
20. Index of names 357
21. Index of languages and dialects 364