Re: THEORY: Areal features. was: THEORY: Storage Vs. Computation

On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Nik Taylor wrote:

> Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> > But there's little good literature on the subject of
> > areal norms, and as soon as it is mentioned, people
> > tend to get up complicated sub-, super-, and ad-stratal
> > theories, that are not always really satisfactory.
>
> The Rise and Fall of Languages by RMW Dixon is a good one, IMO.  You can
> buy it, incidentally, from my website, at
> http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/rise_and_fall_of_languages.html
> </shameless plug>
>
Well, it's none too dear, so I might actually buy it - especially
since Dixon's other work is so good. But I buy linguistics books
essentially by table-of-contents and index - could you give a quick
overview of the toc?

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