Linguistic diversity in space and time /
| Основен автор: | Nichols, Johanna |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Chicago ; London :
University of Chicago Press,
1999.
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Съдържание:
- Favored and disfavored grammatical patterns
- Correlations between types
- Correlations of structural types with grammatical categories
- Diachronic stability: genetic and areal
- The Role of geography: structural affinities between areas
- Linguistic diversity: geographical distribution
- Diversity and linguistic prehistory: conclusions and open questions
- Appendixes Sample languages
- Data: language (by area) and structural features
- Alphabetical list of languages
- Frequency and distribution of voice systems.