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Linguistic and social typology: The Austronesian migrations and phoneme inventories
There is a challenging issue for linguistic typology which involves the relationships which might exist between societal type and aspects of linguistic structure...
Keywords: areal linguistics, Austronesian, community size, language contact, phoneme inventories, Polynesian, social structure
10/2004 | Linguistic Typology, Walter de GruyterPhoneme inventories, language contact, and grammatical complexity: A critique of Trudgill
There is no support for Trudgill's thesis. There are languages with exceptionally high numbers of consonants that are spoken by large groups, sometimes by millions as a second language...
Keywords: bilingualism, creole, language contact, mixed languages, phoneme inventories, pidgin, social structure
10/2004 | Linguistic Typology, Walter de GruyterThere is no correlation between the size of a community speaking a language and the size of the phonological inventory of that language
In the target article, Trudgill assumes, based on the inspection of some Austronesian/Polynesian languages, that large community size favours medium-sized phonological inventories, whereas small community size favours either small phonological inventories or large inventories, and he then undertakes to explain these “facts”...
Keywords: phoneme inventories, social structure
10/2004 | Linguistic Typology, Walter de GruyterGeomagnetische Prospektion und archäologische Untersuchungen bei den Fürstengräbern von Marwedel, Ldkr. Lüchow-Dannenberg – Ein Zwischenbericht
Analysen zur sozialen Gliederung stellen einen wesentlichen Aspekt der archäologischen Forschung dar...
Keywords: Siedlungsarchologie, Frstengrber vom Typ Lbsow, Herrenhof, Sozialstruktur, Geomagnetik, Eisenverhttung, Grubenhuser, tombes princires du type Lbsow, rsidence princire, structure sociale, gomagntique, sidrurgie, maisons semi-enterres, settlement archaeology, Lbsow-type prince burials, princely courts, social structure, electromagnetics, iron smelting, pithouses
05/2007 | Praehistorische Zeitschrift, Walter de Gruyter