Linguistic Areas

by Matras, Yaron; McMahon, April; Vincent, Nigel

• ISBN13: 9781403996572
• ISBN10: 1403996571
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-08-08
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

The contributors to this collection address issues of definition and theory of linguistic areas, analyze the process of convergence, and introduce methods to assess the impact of language contact across geographical zones. New cases studies are introduced which extend the corpus of areas described so far. They are accompanied by discussions that revisit some of the more well-established linguistic areas.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Maps	vii
List of Tables	viii
List of Abbreviations	ix
Notes on the Contributors	xii
Introduction	xv
Areal Linguistics: A Closer Scrutiny	1	(31)
Lyle Campbell
All or Nothing	32	(19)
Thomas Stolz
Keeping Contact in the Family: Approaches to Language Classification and Contact-induced Change	51	(24)
April McMahon
Robert McMahon
Linguistic Areas, Language Contact and Typology: Some Implications from the Case of Ethiopia as a Linguistic Area	75	(24)
Walter Bisang
Structural Isoglosses between Khoekhoe and Tuu: The Cape as a Linguistic Area	99	(36)
Tom Guldemann
The Sri Lanka Sprachbund: The Newcomers Portuguese and Malay	135	(25)
Peter Bakker
On the Roles of Turkic in the Caucasus Area	160	(22)
Lars Johanson
The Circle That Won't Come Full: Two Potential Isoglosses in the Circum-Baltic Area	182	(45)
Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm
Complex Emotion Predicates in Eastern Indonesia: Evidence for Language Contact?	227	(17)
Simon Musgrave
Another Look at Australia as a Linguistic Area	244	(22)
Claire Bowern
Towards a Typology of the Siberian Linguistic Area	266	(35)
Gregory D. S. Anderson
Index of Authors	301	(5)
Index of Language Families, Languages and Dialects	306	(5)
Index of Subjects	311