Re: THEORY: Areal features. was: THEORY: Storage Vs. Computation
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, June 15, 1999, 16:05 |
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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
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