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Some structural features of languages predict others, some remain unchanged in daughter languages, others have an areal consistency; in establishing typological

This volume offers novel insights into linguistic diversity in the domains of spatial and temporal reference, searching for uniformity amongst diversity. A numb

In this ground-breaking book, Johanna Nichols proposes means of describing, comparing, and interpreting linguistic diversity, both genetic and structural, provi

Using models from dialect geography and population genetics, Nichols links Australian colonization from the Old World on the basis of typological distributions.

This is an interdisciplinary volume that focuses on the central topic of the representation of events, namely cross-cultural differences in representing time an