| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 453 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
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Oxford linguistics
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Oxford linguistics.
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Explorations in linguistic typology.
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| Note |
Published in association with the series Explorations in linguistic typology. |
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"First published 2001, first published in paperback 2006"--Title page verso. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Preface; List of contributors; List of abbreviations; 1 INTRODUCTION; 2 ARCHAEOLOGY AND THE HISTORICAL DETERMINANTS OF PUNCTUATION IN LANGUAGE-FAMILY ORIGINS; 3 AN INDO-EUROPEAN LINGUISTIC AREA AND ITS CHARACTERISTICS: ANCIENT ANATOLIA. AREAL DIFFUSION AS A CHALLENGE TO THE COMPARATIVE METHOD?; 4 THE AUSTRALIAN LINGUISTIC AREA; 5 DESCENT AND DIFFUSION: THE COMPLEXITY OF THE PILBARA SITUATION; 6 CONTACT-INDUCED CHANGE IN OCEANIC LANGUAGES IN NORTH-WEST MELANESIA; 7 AREAL DIFFUSION, GENETIC INHERITANCE, AND PROBLEMS OF SUBGROUPING: A NORTH ARAWAK CASE STUDY. |
| Summary |
This book considers how and why forms and meanings of different languages at different times may resemble each other. Its distinguished authors investigate the relationship between areal diffusion and the genetic development of languages, and reveal the means of distinguishing what may cause one language to share the characteristics of another. The chapters cover Ancient Anatolia, Modern Anatolia, Australia, Amazonia, Oceania, Southeast and East Asia, and Sub-Saharan. Africa. - ;Two languages can resemble each other in the categories, constructions, and types of meaning they use; and in the fo. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Comparative linguistics.
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Comparative linguistics. |
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Areal linguistics.
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Areal linguistics. |
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Language spread.
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Language spread. |
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Linguistic change.
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Linguistic change. |
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Languages in contact.
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Languages in contact. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Aĭkhenvalʹd, A. I͡U. (Aleksandra I͡Urʹevna)
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Dixon, Robert M. W., 1939-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Areal diffusion and genetic inheritance. Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006 0199283087 9780199283088 (OCoLC)62474793 |
| ISBN |
9780191523014 (electronic book) |
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0191523011 (electronic book) |
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9780191515750 |
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0191515752 |
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