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[Frans Plank]

Coming very soon, the extra-long (hence extra-late) issue LT 15(2)  
2011.  To make up for the extra-short volume 14 ...

Also coming shortly is LT 15(3).

Frans Plank




LT 15(2) 2011			Contents

Debates



The Vanishing Phonemes Debate, apropos of Atkinson 2011



Joan Bybee

How plausible is the hypothesis that population size and dispersal are  
related to phoneme inventory size?  Introducing and commenting on a  
debate



Peter Trudgill

Social structure and phoneme inventories



Mark Donohue and Johanna Nichols

Does phoneme inventory size correlate with population size?



Östen Dahl

Are small languages more or less complex than big ones?



Søren Wichmann, Taraka Rama, and Eric W. Holman

Phonological diversity, word length, and population sizes across  
languages:  The ASJP evidence



Richard Sproat

Phonemic diversity and the out-of-Africa theory



Claire Bowern

Out of Africa? The logic of phoneme inventories and founder effects



Vladimir Pericliev

On phonemic diversity and the origin of language in Africa



Don Ringe

A pilot study for an investigation into Atkinson's hypothesis



Keren Rice

Athabaskan languages and serial founder effects



Bill Ross and Mark Donohue

The many origins of diversity and complexity in phonology



Ian Maddieson, Tanmoy Bhattacharya, D. Eric Smith, and William Croft

Geographical distribution of phonological complexity



T. Florian Jaeger, Peter Graff, William Croft, and Daniel Pontillo

Mixed effect models for genetic and areal dependencies in linguistic  
typology



Target author's response

Quentin D. Atkinson

Linking spatial patterns of language variation to ancient demography  
and population migrations





The Universals Debate, apropos of Dunn, Greenhill, Levinson, & Gray 2011



Call for debate



Matthew S. Dryer

The evidence for word order correlations



Mark Donohue

Stability of word order: Even simple questions need careful answers



Roger Levy and Hal Daumé III

Computational models are invaluable for typology, but the models must  
match the questions



Balthasar Bickel

Statistical modeling of language universals



Michael Cysouw

Understanding transition probabilities



William Croft, Tanmoy Bhattacharya, Dave Kleinschmidt, D. Eric Smith,  
and T. Florian Jaeger

Greenbergian universals, diachrony, and statistical analysis



Frans Plank

Where's diachrony?



Mark C. Baker

The interplay between Universal Grammar, universals, and lineage  
specificity



Giuseppe Longobardi and Ian Roberts

Non-arguments about non-universals



Harry Tily and T. Florian Jaeger

Complementing quantitative typology with behavioral approaches:  
Evidence for typological universals



Target authors' response



Stephen C. Levinson, Simon J. Greenhill, Russell D. Gray, and Michael  
Dunn

Universal typological dependencies should be detectable in the history  
of language families





LT 15(3) 2011		Contents

Articles



Martin Haspelmath

On S, A, P, T, and R as comparative concepts for alignment typology



Tong Wu

The syntax of prenominal relative clauses: A typological study



Ruth Singer

Typologising idiomaticity: Noun-verb idioms and their relations



Book Reviews



Peter M. Arkadiev

Case and agreement from fringe to core, by Stefan Keine



Daniël Van Olmen

Imperatives and commands, by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald




Editorial Report:  LT since 2007




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