Evidence and counter-evidence. Essays in honour of Frederik Kortlandt

Rodopi

2008

428 p.

Studies in Slavic and general linguistics ; vol. 33

9789042024717

Contents: The Editors: Preface List of Publications by Frederik Kortlandt Willem ADELAAR: Towards a Typological Profile of the Andean Languages Elisabeth DE BOER: The Origin of Alternations in Initial Pitch in ihe Verbal Paradigms of the Central Japanese (Kyôto Type) Accent SystemsV.A. CHIRIKBA: Armenians and their Dialects in AbkhaziaKatia CHIRKOVA: On the Position of Báimă within Tibetan: A Look from Basic VocabularyKaren STEFFEN CHUNG: Living (Happily) with Contradiction George van DRIEM: The Language Organism: Parasite or Mutualist?Roger FINCH: Mongolian /-gar/ and Japanese /-gar-/Stefan GEORG: Yeniseic Languages and the Siberian Linguistic AreaEkaterina GRUZDEVA: How to Orient Oneself on Sakhalin: A Guide to Nivkh Locational TermsC. HOEDE: Knowledge Graph Analysis of Particles in JapaneseHenning KLÖTER: Facts and Fantasy about Favorlang: Early European Encounters with Taiwan’s LanguagesMaarten KOSSMANN: Three Irregular Berber Verbs: ‘Eat’, ‘Drink’, ‘Be Cooked, Ripen’Riikka LÄNSISALMI: Teaching Personal Reference in JapaneseElena MASLOVA: Dual Nominalisation in Yukaghir: Structural Ambiguity as Semantic DualityRoy Andrew MILLER: The Altaic Aorist in *-Ra in Old KoreanMarc Hideo MIYAKE: Avoiding Abba: Old Chinese Syllabic HarmonyMaarten MOUS: Voice in Tunen: The So-Called Passive Prefix Bé-Irina NIKOLAEVA: Chuvan and Omok Languages?Martine ROBBEETS: If Japanese is Altaic, How can it be so Simple?Elena SKRIBNIK: Buryat Evaluative ConstructionsHarry STROOMER: Three Tashelhiyt Berber Texts from the Arsène Roux ArchivesArie VERHAGEN: Syntax, Recursion, Productivity – A Usage-Based Perspective on the Evolution of GrammarJeroen WIEDENHOF: Language, Brains and the Syntactic Revolution.

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