Problems of Typological and Genetic Linguistics Viewed in a Generative Framework
โ Scribed by Henrik Birnbaum
- Publisher
- De Gruyter Mouton
- Year
- 1971
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 132
- Series
- Janua Linguarum. Series Minor; 106
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Table of Contents
PREFATORY NOTE
CONTENTS
1. Deep Structure and Typological Linguistics
2. On Reconstruction and Prediction: Two Correlates of Diachrony in Genetic and Typological Linguistics
3. Internal Reconstruction, Order of Synchronic Rules in Generative Grammar, and the Problem of Early Balto- Slavic Relations
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