Genetic Linguistics : Essays on Theory and Method

"This book collects Joseph Greenberg's most important writings on the genetic classification of the world's languages. William Croft sets the work in context and considers its impact and the bitter controversy it excited."

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Hlavní autor: Greenberg, Joseph Harold, 1915-2001
Další autoři: Croft, William, 1956- (Editor)
Médium: Livre papier
Jazyk:Anglais
Vydáno: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press C 2005.
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Obsah:
  • Preface.
  • Editor's Introduction.
  • PART I: CLASSIFICATION, GROUPING, AND SUBGROUPING.
  • 1: Historical Linguistics and Unwritten Languages (1953).
  • 2: Genetic Relationship Among Languages (1957).
  • 3: The Problem of Linguistic Subgroupings (1957).
  • 4: The General Classification of Central and South American Languages (1960).
  • 5: The Methodology of Language Classification (1963).
  • PART II: CLASSIFICATION, SOUND CORRESPONDENCES AND RECONSTRUCTION.
  • 6: The Principles of Genetic Linguistic Classification (1987).
  • 7: On Lumping and Splitting in Linguistics and Biology (1999).
  • 8: The Concept of Proof in Genetic Linguistics (2000).
  • 9: Review of Vladimir E. Orel & Olga V. Stolbova, Hamito-Semitic etymological dictionary: Materials for a Reconstruction (1996).
  • 10: Proto-linguistic Variation: A Link Between Historical Linguistics and Sociolinguistics (1989).
  • 11: Indo-European Practice and American Indianist Theory in Linguistic Classification (1990).
  • PART III: INDO-PACIFIC, AMERIND, EURASIATIC.
  • 12: The Indo-Pacific Hypothesis (1971).
  • 13: Classification of American Indian Languages: A Reply to Campbell (1989).
  • 14: In Defense of Amerind (1996).
  • 15: Does Altaic Exist? (1997).
  • 16: The Convergence of Eurasiatic and Nostratic (1998).
  • PART IV: GENETIC LINGUISTICS AND HUMAN HISTORY.
  • 17: Linguistic Typology and History: Review of Johanna Nichols, Linguistic Diversity in Space and Time (1993).
  • 18: Are There Mixed Languages (1999).
  • 19: Language and Archaeology: Review of Colin Renfrew, Archaeology and Language: The Puzzle of Indo-European Origins and Merritt Ruhlen, A Guide to the World's Languages, vol. 1: Classification (1988).
  • 20: Beringia and New World Origins: The Linguistic Evidence (1996).
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY of Works Related to Joseph H. Greenberg's Theory and Methods for Genetic Linguistics.
  • APPENDIX A: Works by Joseph H. Greenberg on Genetic Linguistics.
  • APPENDIX B: Reviews, Commentaries and Discussion of Joseph H. Greenberg's Works on Genetic Linguistics.
  • INDEX