Frontmatter -- EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION -- CONTENTS -- MASTER LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- PART ONE: INTRODUCTORY -- THE HISTORY OF LANGUAGE CLASSIFICATION / Robins, R. H. -- PART TWO: METHODOLOGICAL -- INTRODUCTORY REMARKS / Hoenigswald, Henry M. -- THE COMPARATIVE METHOD / Hoenigswald, Henry M. -- INTERNAL RECONSTRUCTION / Kurylowicz, Jerzy -- MATHEMATICAL DEVELOPMENTS IN LEXICOSTATISTIC THEORY / Sankoff, David -- ON COMPARATIVE LINGUISTICS: THE CASE OF GRASSMANN'S LAW / Kiparsky, Paul -- AREAL LINGUISTICS: SOME GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS / Winter, Werner -- THE TYPOLOGICAL METHOD / Greenberg, Joseph H. -- THE SOCIAL SETTING OF LINGUISTIC CHANGE / Labov, William -- WRITTEN RECORDS AND DECIPHERMENT / Gelb, Ignace J. -- PART THREE: CASE STUDIES -- INTRODUCTORY REMARKS / Longacre, Robert E. -- OTOMANGUEAN ISOGLOSSES / Rensch, Calvin R. -- INTERNAL RECONSTRUCTION AND FINNOUGRIC (FINNISH) / Anttila, Raimo -- THE ROMANCE DATA OF THE PILOT STUDIES FOR GLOTTOCHRONOLOGY / Rea, John A. -- JAPANESE DIALECTS / Hattori, Shiro -- DEEP-SURFACE CANONICAL DISPARITIES IN RELATION TO ANALYSIS AND CHANGE: AN AUSTRALIAN EXAMPLE / Hale, Kenneth -- AREAL LINGUISTICS AND MIDDLE AMERICA / Kaufman, Terrence -- DIACHRONIC TYPOLOGY OF PHILIPPINE VOWEL SYSTEMS / Reid, Lawrence Andrew -- SOME ASPECTS OF DECREOLIZATION IN CREOLE FRENCH / Valdman, Albert -- LINEAR B / Chadwick, John -- ALTAIC LINGUISTIC RECONSTRUCTION AND CULTURE / Krueger, John R. -- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES -- INDEX OF NAMES -- INDEX OF LANGUAGES AND WRITING SYSTEMSweiterlesen