256 Index of grammar and linguistics
Epenthesis 219
Ergativity 243
Family tree 231
Focus 90, 227
Fricativization 70
Fronting (See also Left
dislocation; Verb
movement) 137, 227
Fusional morphology 24, 79,
106, 149, 173, 239
Gemination 232, 234, 237
Generalization (See also
Regularization) 36
Gender 24, 80, 106, 132,
149, 173, 200, 221, 238,
239
Gerundives 87, 88, 91, 114
Gerunds 88, 91
Glottalic hypothesis 232
Grammaticalization 183, 205,
224
Grammatischer Wechsel 195,
210
Heteroclites 28
Homonymy 155
Hypercorrection 79
Hyperlongvowels200
Hypotaxis 243
Hysterokinetic 201
Imperatives 39, 68,
156
Infinitives 41, 68, 88, 91,
92, 97, 114, 118, 157,
159, 178, 205, 206, 207,
241
Innovations 97, 98, 101,
104, 172, 211, 230, 231,
236
Internal derivation 238
Internal reconstruction
230
Intonation 236
Isogloss 58, 61, 69, 127
Koines 216
Laryngeals 23, 36, 38, 126,
197, 198, 233
Left dislocation (See also
Fronting) 184
Lenition 172
Linguistic continuum 98
Loanwords (See also
Borrowings) 48, 75, 93,
121, 139, 141, 142, 145,
146, 163, 192
Mergers 17, 20, 77, 78, 109,
126, 127, 149, 169, 171,
199, 218, 219, 220, 230
Length metathesis 79
Quantitative metathesis 26,
62, 65
Meter 236
Monophthongization 17, 59,
77, 105, 109, 131, 149,
160, 169, 170, 200,
219
Mood (See also Imperatives)
32, 83, 110, 118, 134,
154, 156–157, 177, 205,
240
Injunctive mood 39
Necessitative mood 156
Optative mood 39, 240
Subjunctive mood 39, 68,
156, 240
Mora 18, 19
Morpheme boundaries 148
Morphophonemics 78, 149,
150, 195
Morphophonologics 220
Morphosyntactics 69
Neutralization 38, 232, 234
Nominal morphology 24,
63–65, 80–82, 106–108,
132–134, 149–152,
173–175, 200–203,
221–222, 238
Nominal stem-classes (See
also Noun classes) 81,
106, 132, 173–175, 201,
221–222
Noun classes (See also
Nominal stem-classes),
24–28, 63
Noun endings 203
Number 24, 32, 80, 106, 110,
132, 134, 151–152, 154,
161, 173, 221, 223, 239,
240
Numerals 43–45, 69, 89,
115–116, 159, 179, 212
Cardinal numerals 43, 44,
89, 115, 159, 179
Ordinal numerals 44, 89,
115, 159, 179
Overlong syllables 78
Palatalization (See also
Depalatalization) 60,
100, 102, 145, 150, 151,
160
Parataxis 244
Participles 42, 84, 87, 88, 91,
92, 114, 135, 157–158,
178, 205, 224, 241, 242
Particles 66, 69, 83, 90, 110,
184, 212
Hic et nunc particle 241
Periphrastic constructions 84,
87, 88, 92, 112, 119, 205,
211
Person 32, 110, 134, 154, 223,
240
Phonotaxis 18, 234
Postpositions 90, 115, 116,
117, 160, 180, 181, 227
Pragmatics 90, 180,
182
Prepositions 45, 80, 90,
117, 180, 183, 213, 226,
227
Preterito-presents 207–209,
211
Pro-drop 179, 182, 228
Anaphoric pronouns 82,
83, 109, 110, 176
Deictic pronouns (See also
Deixis) 160, 176
Demonstrative pronouns
31, 66, 82, 109, 110, 147,
153,
160, 174, 175, 203,
204, 205, 240
Emphatic pronouns 109,
176, 178
Indefinite pronouns 31, 66,
109, 110, 154, 204
Indefinite relative
pronouns 83, 212
Interrogative pronouns 31,
66, 83, 109, 153, 203,
204, 212, 240
Personal pronouns 29–30,
65–66, 82, 90, 97, 109,
134, 153, 176, 204, 222,
240
Possessive pronouns 176,
240