LANGUAGE TYPOLOGY 1987 SYSTEMATIC BALANCE IN LANGUAGE -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Foreword -- GENERAL AND SPECIFIC TENDENCIES IN HISTORICAL CHANGE OF LANGUAGE TYPE -- TYPOLOGY IN THE SERVICE OF INTERNAL RECONSTRUCTION: Saxalin Nivx -- TYPOLOGY AND PHONOLOGICAL HISTORY -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. MIDDLE COMMON SLAVIC VOWEL SYSTEM -- 3. SATƏM VELARS IN KWAKIUTL AND OLD FRENCH -- 4. VERNER'S LAW IN TAKELMA -- 5. DE SAUSSURE'S LAW IN LITHUANIAN -- NOTES -- DIACHRONIC TYPOLOGY AND RECONSTRUCTION: The "Archaism" of Germanic and Armenian in Light of the Glottalic Theory -- NOTES -- ALIGNMENT TYPOLOGY AND DIACHRONIC CHANGE -- 1. THE PROBLEM -- 2. A UNIVERSAL OF ALIGNMENT CHANGE -- 3. THE COMPLEMENTARITY PRINCIPLE AND EXTENSION IN A SYNTACTIC SPLIT -- 3.1 Condition (i) on complementarity. -- 3.2. Indo-Iranian examples. -- 3.3 Kartvelian examples. -- 4. THE COMPLEMENTARITY PRINCIPLE AND SIMPLE EXTENSION -- 4.1 Condition (ii) on complementarity. -- 4.2 Wappo. -- 4.3 Udi. -- 4.4 Mingrelian. -- 5. THE COMPLEMENTARITY PRINCIPLE AND SYNTACTIC LEVELS -- 5.1 Condition (iii) on the Complementarìty Principle. -- 5.2 Lardil. -- 5.3 Kartvelian, Seríes I. -- 5.4 Kartvelian, Series II. -- 6. THE PUTATIVE PROBLEM OF THE PARTIAL RECIPIENT -- 6.1 Spanish. -- 6.2 Partial recipients as a problem for the Complementarity Principle. -- 7. INTERACTION WITH THE UNACCUSATIVE HYPOTHESIS -- 7.1 Condition (iii) and the Unaccusative Hypothesis. -- 7.2 An example involving the Unaccusative Hypothesis: Finnish. -- 7.3 The putative problem of the extended accusative. -- 8. CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- ON THE SOURCE OF THE GENITIVE IN ERGATIVE LANGUAGES -- SOME PRECONDITIONS AND TYPICAL TRAITS OF THE STATIVE-ACTIVE LANGUAGE TYPE (with reference to Proto-Indo-European) -- HISTORICAL MORPHEMICS AND UNIT-ORDER TYPOLOGY -- NOTES.

RELATIVE PRONOUNS AND P.I.E. WORD ORDER TYPE IN THE CONTEXT OF THE EURASIATIC HYPOTHESIS -- NOTES -- DIACHRONIC CHANGE AND TYPOLOGY, as Illustrated with Languages of East and Southeast Asia -- NOTE -- TYPOLOGY AND CHANGE IN ALASKAN LANGUAGES -- NOTE -- PRINCIPLES OF GRAMMATICIZATION: Towards a Diachronic Typology -- 0. INTRODUCTION -- 1. GRAMMATICIZATION -- 2. FUNCTIONAL DOMAINS -- 3. THE HEURISTIC PRINCIPLES IN OLD ENGLISH -- 3.1 Accumulation. -- 3.1.1 Verbal Ablaut. -- 3.1.2 Suffixation. -- 3.1.3 Prefixation. -- 3.1.4 Auxiliation. -- 3.1.5 Word Order. -- 3.1.6 Summary. -- 3.2 Divergence. -- 3.3 Specialization. -- 3.4 Persistence. -- 4. CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- SYNTACTIC RESIDUES -- 0. INTRODUCTION -- 1. IDENTIFICATION OF RESIDUES -- 2. VALIDATION FOR THE USE OF TYPOLOGY IN HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS -- 3. ESTABLISHED GENERALIZATIONS BASED ON THE EMPIRICIST POSITION -- 4. VARIATION IN LANGUAGE -- 5. RESIDUES AS PRESERVATIONS FROM AN EARLIER STAGE -- 6. RESIDUES REFLECTING PATTERNS OF SYNTACTIC SELECTION -- 7. PATTERNS REFLECTING SANDHI -- 8. RESIDUES OF SYNTACTIC INTONATION -- 9. INTERPRETATION OF RESIDUES FOR RECONSTRUCTION -- References -- Index.