Lehmann Winfred P., Jakusz Hewitt Helen-Jo (Editors). Language Typology 1988: Typological Models in the Service of Reconstruction

John Benjamins, 1991. — v, 182 pages. — (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory). — ISBN: 90-272-3578-3 / ISBN: 1-55619-136-7This is the third volume of papers yielded from the annual Linguistic Typology symposia inaugurated by the International Research and Exchange Board. The volume deals with an area of linguistics in which scholars of the USSR have made notable contributions and makes available to the West at least one segment of Soviet historical linguistics. This publication hopes to extend our knowledge of peoples of the present and the past through improved understanding of their languages and the texts they have produced.The Importance of Models in Historical Linguistics
On Two Kinds of Reconstruction in Comparative Studies
Morphemic Change, Typology, and Uniformitarianism: A study in reconstruction
Some Problems of Syntactic Reconstruction
Vowel Gamuts in Romance Derivational Suffixation
Maintenance of Reference in Sentence and. Discourse
The Development of Bound Pronominal Paradigms
On Reconstructing Morphology and Syntax
Linguistics and Archeology: Differences in perspective in the study of prehistoric cultures
Latin tarentum Accas, the ludi Saeculares, and Indo-European Eschatology
Über den Ursprung des Albanischen (sprachvergleichend und historisch betrachtet)