THE ROMANCE DATA OF THE PILOT STUDIES FOR GLOTTOCHRONOLOGY

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION V
3. CONTENTS VII
4. MASTER LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS IX
5. PART ONE: INTRODUCTORY
6. THE HISTORY OF LANGUAGE CLASSIFICATION 3
7. PART TWO: METHODOLOGICAL
8. INTRODUCTORY REMARKS 45
9. THE COMPARATIVE METHOD 51
10. INTERNAL RECONSTRUCTION 63
11. MATHEMATICAL DEVELOPMENTS IN LEXICOSTATISTIC THEORY 93
12. ON COMPARATIVE LINGUISTICS: THE CASE OF GRASSMANN'S LAW 115
13. AREAL LINGUISTICS: SOME GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS 135
14. THE TYPOLOGICAL METHOD 149
15. THE SOCIAL SETTING OF LINGUISTIC CHANGE 195
16. WRITTEN RECORDS AND DECIPHERMENT 253
17. PART THREE: CASE STUDIES
18. INTRODUCTORY REMARKS 287
19. OTOMANGUEAN ISOGLOSSES 295
20. INTERNAL RECONSTRUCTION AND FINNOUGRIC (FINNISH) 317
21. THE ROMANCE DATA OF THE PILOT STUDIES FOR GLOTTOCHRONOLOGY 355
22. JAPANESE DIALECTS 368
23. DEEP-SURFACE CANONICAL DISPARITIES IN RELATION TO ANALYSIS AND CHANGE: AN AUSTRALIAN EXAMPLE 401
24. AREAL LINGUISTICS AND MIDDLE AMERICA 459
25. DIACHRONIC TYPOLOGY OF PHILIPPINE VOWEL SYSTEMS 485
26. SOME ASPECTS OF DECREOLIZATION IN CREOLE FRENCH 507
27. LINEAR B 537
28. ALTAIC LINGUISTIC RECONSTRUCTION AND CULTURE 569
29. BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES 583
30. INDEX OF NAMES 589
31. INDEX OF LANGUAGES AND WRITING SYSTEMS 597