Evidence and Counter-Evidence: Essays in Honour of Frederik Kortlandt, Volume 2

Download or read book Evidence and Counter-Evidence: Essays in Honour of Frederik Kortlandt, Volume 2 written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preliminary Material -- PREFACE -- LIST OF PUBLICATIONS BY FREDERIK KORTLANDT -- TOWARDS A TYPOLOGICAL PROFILE OF THE ANDEAN LANGUAGES /Willem Adelaar -- THE ORIGIN OF ALTERNATIONS IN INITIAL PITCH IN THE VERBAL PARADIGMS OF THE CENTRAL JAPANESE (KYÔTO TYPE) ACCENT SYSTEMS /Elisabeth de Boer -- ARMENIANS AND THEIR DIALECTS IN ABKHAZIA /V.A. Chirikba -- ON THE POSITION OF BÁIMĂ WITHIN TIBETAN: A LOOK FROM BASIC VOCABULARY /Katia Chirkova -- LIVING (HAPPILY) WITH CONTRADICTION /Karen Steffen Chung -- THE LANGUAGE ORGANISM: PARASITE OR MUTUALIST? /George van Driem -- MONGOLIAN /-GAR/ AND JAPANESE /-GAR-/ /Roger Finch -- YENISEIC LANGUAGES AND THE SIBERIAN LINGUISTIC AREA /Stefan Georg -- HOW TO ORIENT ONESELF ON SAKHALIN: A GUIDE TO NIVKH LOCATIONAL TERMS /Ekaterina Gruzdeva -- KNOWLEDGE GRAPH ANALYSIS OF PARTICLES IN JAPANESE /C. Hoede -- FACTS AND FANTASY ABOUT FAVORLANG: EARLY EUROPEAN ENCOUNTERS WITH TAIWAN'S LANGUAGES /Henning Klöter -- THREE IRREGULAR BERBER VERBS: 'EAT', 'DRINK', 'BE COOKED, RIPEN' /Maarten Kossmann -- TEACHING PERSONAL REFERENCE IN JAPANESE /Riikka Länsisalmi -- DUAL NOMINALISATION IN YUKAGHIR: STRUCTURAL AMBIGUITY AS SEMANTIC DUALITY /Elena Maslova -- THE ALTAIC AORIST IN *-RA IN OLD KOREAN /Roy Andrew Miller -- AVOIDING ABBA: OLD CHINESE SYLLABIC HARMONY /Marc Hideo Miyake -- VOICE IN TUNEN: THE SO-CALLED PASSIVE PREFIX BÉ /Maarten Mous -- CHUVAN AND OMOK LANGUAGES? /Irina Nikolaeva -- IF JAPANESE IS ALTAIC, HOW CAN IT BE SO SIMPLE? /Martine Robbeets -- BURYAT EVALUATIVE CONSTRUCTIONS /Elena Skribnik -- THREE TASHELHIYT BERBER TEXTS FROM THE ARSÈNE ROUX ARCHIVES /Harry Stroomer -- SYNTAX, RECURSION, PRODUCTIVITY - A USAGE-BASED PERSPECTIVE ON THE EVOLUTION OF GRAMMAR /Arie Verhagen -- LANGUAGE, BRAINS AND THE SYNTACTIC REVOLUTION /Jeroen Wiedenhof.