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The Life Cycle of Language : Past, Present, and Future
The Life Cycle of Language : Past, Present, and Future
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ISBN No.: 9780192845818
Pages: 496
Year: 202402
Format: Trade Cloth (Hard Cover)
Price: $ 179.40
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Part I. Reconstructing the past 1. The fall and rise of vowel length in Bantu, Larry M. Hyman 2. The rise and fall of rounding harmony in Turkic, Darya Kavitskaya and Adam McCollum 3. The life cycle of the Kuuk Thaayorre desiderative, Alice Gaby 4. Akan morphological 'reversal' in historical context, Mary Paster 5. Increasing morphological mismatch via category loss: The Spanish future subjunctive, Matthew L.


Juge 6. Toward a non-teleological account of demonstrative reinforcement, David Goldstein 7. Typology and history of unusual traits in Nivaclé, Lyle Campbell 8. Greek γ*w*k*a and the perfect of PIE *ogneh3 'know', Jay H. Jasanoff 9. The surface position of Hittite subordinating kuit, H. Craig Melchert 10. Proto-Indo-European *meh2- 'grow, be fruitful' and Proto-Basque *ma, *maha 'fruit': An apple by any other name.


, Juliette Blevins Part II. Philological and documentary past and present 11. Paradigm structure in Sanskrit reduplicants, Donca Steriade 12. Sound symbolic words in Sélis-Ql'ispé, Sarah Thomason 13. Tone and morphological structure in a documentation-based grammar of Choguita Rarámuri, Gabriela Caballero 14. The structure of dialect diversity in Mono: Evidence from the Sydney M. Lamb papers, Hannah J. Haynie and Maziar Toosarvandani 15.


Recovering prosody from Karuk texts: Deciphering J. P. Harrington's diacritics, Clare S. Sandy 16. Stylistic differentiation in California Dene texts, Justin Spence 17. Winter story themes in Meskwaki: Familiar creatures seen with new eyes, Lucy Thomason 18. The material and the textual in documentation of Native American languages, Lisa Conathan 19. Community-participatory orthography development in the Máíjùnà communities of Peruvian Amazonia, Christine Beier and Lev Michael 20.


The value of family relations for revitalization, Marianne Mithun Part III. Looking forward: New approaches 21. Sound structure and the psycholinguistics of language contact, Molly Babel and Melinda Fricke 22. Child-directed speech as a potential source of phonetic precursor enhancement in sound change: Evidence from Cantonese, Alan C. L. Yu, Carol Kit-sun To, and Yao Yao 23. Paradigmatic heterogeneity and homogenization: Probing Paul's principle, Chundra Cathcart 24. Language change in small-scale multilingual societies: Trees, waves, and magnets?, Jeff Good 25.


Gradualness and abruptness in linguistic split: A Nyulnyulan case study, Claire Bowern.


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