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Linguistic Areas

Convergence in Historical and Typological Perspective

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Editors:
  1. Yaron Matras

    1. University of Manchester, UK

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  2. April McMahon

    1. University of Edinburgh, UK

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  3. Nigel Vincent

    1. University of Manchester, UK

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. Areal Linguistics: A Closer Scrutiny

    • Lyle Campbell
    Pages 1-31

  3. All or Nothing

    • Thomas Stolz
    Pages 32-50

  4. Keeping Contact in the Family: Approaches to Language Classification and Contact-induced Change

    • April McMahon, Robert McMahon
    Pages 51-74

  5. Linguistic Areas, Language Contact and Typology: Some Implications from the Case of Ethiopia as a Linguistic Area

    • Walter Bisang
    Pages 75-98

  6. Structural Isoglosses between Khoekhoe and Tuu: The Cape as a Linguistic Area

    • Tom Güldemann
    Pages 99-134

  7. The Sri Lanka Sprachbund: The Newcomers Portuguese and Malay

    • Peter Bakker
    Pages 135-159

  8. On the Roles of Turkic in the Caucasus Area

    • Lars Johanson
    Pages 160-181

  9. The Circle That Won’t Come Full: Two Potential Isoglosses in the Circum-Baltic Area

    • Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm
    Pages 182-226

  10. Complex Emotion Predicates in Eastern Indonesia: Evidence for Language Contact?

    • Simon Musgrave
    Pages 227-243

  11. Another Look at Australia as a Linguistic Area

    • Claire Bowern
    Pages 244-265

  12. Towards a Typology of the Siberian Linguistic Area

    • Gregory D. S. Anderson
    Pages 266-300

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 301-313
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About this book

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 case studies are accompanied by discussions that revisit some of the more well-established linguistic areas.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Manchester, UK

    Yaron Matras, Nigel Vincent

  • University of Edinburgh, UK

    April McMahon

About the editors

GREGORY D.S. ANDERSON Research Associate, MPI-EVA/Leipzig, Germany and University of Oregon Department of Linguistics, USA PETER BAKKER Lecturer, Department of Linguistics, Arrhus University, Denmark WALTER BISANG Professor of General and Comparative Linguistics, University of Mainz, Germany CLAIRE BOWERN Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, Rice University, USA LYLE CAMPBELL Professor of Linguistics and Director of the Centre for American Indian Languages, University of Utah, USA TOM GÜLDEMANN Research Associate, Linguistics Section, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig and teaches at the Department of African Studies of the University of Leipzig, Germany LARS JOHANSON Professor of Turcology in the Seminar für Orientkunde, Johannes Gutenberg-Universisät, Mainz, Germany MARIA KOPTJEVSKAJA-TAMM Professor, Department of General Linguistics, Stockholm University, Sweden ROBERT MCMAHON Clinical Molecular Geneticist, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK SIMON MUSGRAVE Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Cultures and Linguistics, Monash University, Australia THOMAS STOLZ Professor of Linguistics, University of Bremen, Germany.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Linguistic Areas

  • Book Subtitle: Convergence in Historical and Typological Perspective

  • Editors: Yaron Matras, April McMahon, Nigel Vincent

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230287617

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Language & Linguistics Collection, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2006

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-9657-2Published: 02 May 2006

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-28761-7Published: 02 May 2006

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 313

  • Topics: Sociolinguistics, Comparative Linguistics, Phonology and Phonetics

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