Language Typology and Historical Contingency: In Honor of Johanna Nichols

Preface
vii–viii

PART I. STRUCTURES AND TYPOLOGIES

Discourse semantics and the form of the verb predicate in Karachay-Balkar: A corpus-based and experimental study
Andrej A. Kibrik
3–46

Typology and channel of communication: Where do signed languages fit in
Dan I. Slobin
47–68

Marking versus indexing: Revisiting the Nichols marking-locus typology
Nicholas Evans and Eva Fenwick
69–90

Head-marking languages and linguistic theory
Robert D. Van Valin Jr.
91–124

Lessons of variability in clause coordination: Evidence from North Caucasian languages
Aleksandr E. Kibrik
125–152

Noun classes grow on trees: Noun classification in the North-East Caucasus
Keith Plaster, Maria Polinsky and Boris Harizanov
153–170

Affecting valence in Khumi
David A. Peterson
171–194

Capturing diversity in language acquisition research
Sabine Stoll and Balthasar Bickel
195–216

PART II. DISTRIBUTIONS IN TIME AND SPACE

Who inherits what, when? Toward a theory of contact, substrates, and superimposition zones
Mark Donohue
219–240

Polysynthesis in the Arctic/Sub-Arctic: How recent is it?
Michael Fortescue
241–264

A (micro-)accretion zone in a remnant zone? Lower Fungom in areal-historical perspective
Jeff Good
265–282

A history of Iroquoian gender marking
Michael Cysouw
283–298

The satem shift, Armenian siseṙn, and the early Indo-European of the Balkans
Bill J. Darden
299–308

Penultimate lengthening in Bantu: Analysis and spread
Larry M. Hyman
309–330

Culture and the spread of Slavic
Alan Timberlake
331–356

The syntax and pragmatics of Tungusic revisited
Lenore A. Grenoble
357–382

Some observations on typological features of hunter-gatherer languages
Michael Cysouw and Bernard Comrie
383–394

Typologizing phonetic precursors to sound change
Alan C.L. Yu
395–414

Distributional biases in language families
Balthasar Bickel
415–444

The morphology of imperatives in Lak: Stem vowels in the second singular simplex transitive affirmative
Victor A. Friedman
445–462

Subgrouping in Tibeto-Burman: Can an individual-identifying standard be developed? How do we factor in the history of migrations and language contact?
Randy J. LaPolla
463–474

PART III. A (CAUTIONARY) NOTE ON METHODOLOGY

Real data, contrived data, and the Yokuts Canon
William F. Weigel
477–494

Language index
495–498

Name index
499–504

Subject index
505–512