Table of contents
Part I.Setting the stage
1
Synchronic vs. diachronic approaches to typological
hierarchies
3
Part II.Foundational issues
29
Chapter 1.Evolutionary Phonology and the life cycle of voiceless
sonorants
31
Chapter 2.The Obligatory Coding Principle in diachronic perspective
59
Chapter 3.Deconstructing teleology: The place of synchronic usage patterns among processes of
diachronic development
111
Part III.Hierarchical effects and their origins
130
Chapter 4.The development of referential hierarchy effects in Sahaptian
131
Chapter 5.Diachrony and the referential hierarchy in Old Irish
191
Chapter 6.From ergative case-marking to hierarchical agreement: A reconstruction of the argument-marking system of Reyesano
(Takanan, Bolivia)
217
Chapter 7.The direction(s) of analogical change in direct/inverse
systems
257
Chapter 8.
Are the Tupi-Guarani hierarchical indexing systems really motivated
by the person hierarchy?
289
Chapter 9.Incipient hierarchical alignment in four Central Salish languages
from the Proto-Salish middle
309
Part IV.Conflicting hierarchical patterns and how to deal with them
347
Chapter 10.Deictic and sociopragmatic effects in Tibeto-Burman SAP
indexation
345
Chapter 11.Morphosyntactic coding of proper names and its implications for the
Animacy Hierarchy
377
Chapter 12.Generic person marking in Japhug and other Gyalrong languages
403
Index
425
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