Full Description
This volume aims to make a contribution to codifying the methods and practices linguists use to recover language history, focussing predominantly on historical morphology. The volume includes studies on a wide range of languages: not only Indo-European, but also Austronesian, Sinitic, Mon-Khmer, Basque, one Papuan language family, as well as a number of Australian families. Few collections are as cross-linguistic as this, reflecting the new challenges which have emerged from the study of languages outside those best known from historical linguistics. The contributors illustrate shared methodological and theoretical issues concerning genetic relatedness (that is, the use of morphological evidence for classification and subgrouping), reconstruction and processes of change with a diverse range of data. The volume is in honour of Harold Koch, who has long combined innovative research on understudied languages with methodological rigour and codification of practices within the discipline.
Contents
1. Contributors' addresses; 2. Introduction (by Bowern, Claire); 3. Part I. Genetic relatedness; 4. 1. Western Torres Strait language classification and development (by Alpher, Barry); 5. 2. The classification of Pinikura, Western Australia (by Austin, Peter); 6. 3. Bound pronominals in the West Papuan languages (by Donohue, Mark); 7. 4. Alawa and its neighbours: Enigma variations 1 and 2 (by Sharpe, Margaret); 8. 5. Reconstructing pre-Warumungu pronominals (by Simpson, Jane); 9. Part II. Reconstruction; 10. 6. Splitting vs. lumping in morphological analysis: Evidence from Greek (by Andrews, Avery D.); 11. 7. Pronominal accretions in Pama-Nyungan (by Black, Paul); 12. 8. Associated eating and movement: further examination of Yuwaalaraay Gamilaraay verb suffixes (by Giacon, John); 13. 9. The origin of conjugation markers in Australian languages (by Harvey, Mark); 14. 10. Some remarks on negatives in Southeastern Australia (by Hercus, Luise); 15. 11. *gu es-, *(z)g u es-, *(s)g u esh2-? The PIE root for 'extinguish/go out' (by Jasanoff, Jay H.); 16. 12. The language of Central Australian Aboriginal songs (by Koch, Grace); 17. 13. The origin of noun classes in Worrorran languages (by McGregor, William B.); 18. 14. Hittite duwan (para) (by Melchert, H. Craig); 19. 15. Morphological reconstruction and Australian languages (by Miceli, Luisa); 20. 16. Warlpiri verb roots in comparative perspective (by Nash, David); 21. 17. Oujiang Wu tones and acoustic reconstruction (by Rose, Phil); 22. 18. Issues in the morphological reconstruction of Proto-Mon-Khmer (by Sidwell, Paul J.); 23. Part III. Processes of change; 24. 19. Case selection Old and New Basque (by Donohue, Cathryn); 25. 20. Third person plural as a morphological zero: Object marking in Marovo (by Evans, Bethwyn); 26. 21. The morphological development of the perfect in Jersey Norman French (by Liddicoat, Anthony J.); 27. 22. Grand-daddy morphs: The importance of suffixes in reconstructing Pama-Nyungan kinship (by McConvell, Patrick); 28. 23. Morphology of the eggs, and what it can tell us about Romanian nominal inflection (by Schulte, Kim); 29. 24. The refunctionalisation of first person plural inflection in Tiwi (by Smith, John Charles); 30. 25. A chain vowel raising in the early history of Chinese (by Zhu, Xiaonong); 31. Index of languages; 32. Index of subjects
