The Life Cycle of Language Past, Present, and Future

by Kavitskaya, Darya; Yu, Alan C. L.

• ISBN13: 9780192845818
• ISBN10: 0192845810
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2024-02-23
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Darya Kavitskaya, Associate Professor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of California Berkeley,Alan C. L. Yu, William Colvin Professor of Linguistics and the College, University of Chicago

Darya Kavitskaya is Associate Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and in the Linguistics Department at the University of California, Berkeley. Her main research interests are contrast preservation and loss and opacity, and she is particularly interested in palatalization and vowel harmony. Her work focuses on phonological issues in Slavic, Turkic, and Uralic, and is connected to other linguistic fields such as historical linguistics, phonetics, and language acquisition.


Alan C. L. Yu is the William Colvin Professor of Linguistics and the College at the University of Chicago. His research focuses on language variation and change, particularly from an individual-difference perspective. He is the author of A Natural History of Infixation (OUP, 2007), the editor of Origins of Sound Change: Approaches to Phonologization (OUP, 2013), and co-editor of The Handbook of Phonological Theory, 2nd Edition (Wiley Blackwell, 2011). He is co-General Editor of Laboratory Phonology, and Associate Editor of the International Journal of American Linguistics. He was elected a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America in 2016.

Table of Contents

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 ??*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 Séliš-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