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Linguistic Diversity in Space and Time (1999)

Linguistic Diversity in Space and Time (1999)

Johanna Nichols

Year: 1999
Authors: Johanna Nichols
Publishers: University of Chicago Press
Pages: 380
Print type: BOOK

Description:

Some structural features of languages predict others, some remain unchanged in daughter languages, others have an areal consistency; in establishing typologically, historically and geographically stable features in the worlds languages, examples are included from Kayardild, Djingili, Dyirbal, Mangarayi, Maung, Ngiyambaa.