Table of contents
Introduction: Problems of structuralist beginnings (and endings)ix
IV. Methodological Perspectives
21. Indo-European Methodology, Bloomfield’s Central Algonquian, and Sapir’s Distant Genetic Relationships3
22. The Need for Phonetically Accurate Notation in the General Progress of Linguitics17
23. The Autonomy of Linguistics: Saussure to Chomsky and beyond29
24. On the Notion of Zero41
25. ‘God’s Truth’ and Sturcturalism: A new look at an old controversy67
26. From Ordered Rules to Ranked Constraints81
V. Indo-European Linguistics
27. Next of Kin: The search for relatives of Indo-European101
28. Typolgy and Reconstruction: New trends in comparative historical and diachronic linguistics109
29. Typology and Diachrony of the Middle Voice115
30. Indo-European Numerals Since Szemerényi131
31. Berthold Delbrück and his Contemporaries on ‘Tempora’ in Sanskrit153
32. Observations on Two Recently Discovered Latin Inscriptions165
33. Comparative, Structural and Sociolinguistic Analyses of the History of the Romance Languages175
34. Romance Historical Morphology and Empty Affixes189
35. Markedness and Morphosyntactic Change Revisited: The case of Romance past participle agreement203
36. Romanian and the Balkans: Some comparative perspectives217
VII. Germanic, Caucasian and Asian Linguistics
37. Toward “a Complete Analysis of the Residues”: On regular vs. morpholexical approaches to OHG umlaut239
38. Narrative Cohesion in the Kensington Runic Text255
39. The Compound Gerund in Early Modern English265
40. Gender Affixes in Tsez: Synchrony and diachrony279
41. Once Again on the Reading of the Old Korean289
42. The Rôle of Historiography in Evaluating the Results of Comparative Linguistic Work: A case study301
Koerner Tabula Gratulatoria313
Name Index315
Subject Index321
Contents of Volume One333
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