TY - JOUR
AU1 - Katz, Joshua Timothy
AB - 644LANGUAGE, VOLUME 74, NUMBER 3 (1998) (1) No—speak—Spanish. Go—airport ...... airplanes—zoom-zoom-zoom. Quick. You—get—me—airport—me—pay—big bucks. Kapeesh? The radical grammatical simplification and lexical attrition typical of pidgins is described, as is the depidginization of creóles. The chapter concludes with an exemplification of the creóle features of African American Vernacular English. Ch. 15 (446-52) examines factors leading to language death and comments on measures that can be taken to aid in the preservation of endan- gered languages. Part VI, 'Language relationship', begins with Ch. 16 (455-84) on the comparative method. H & J emphasize the necessity of establishing systematic phonological correspondences, perhaps supplemented by shared morphological aberrancies, to demonstrate genetic relationship. They provide the salutary warning that a data sample of insufficient size, along with chance similarities and convergence effects, can markedly impact the accuracy of one's results and therefore must be carefully accounted for. Though most data are drawn from the Indo-European family in the volume, this chapter concludes with a consideration of the progress made in the historical and comparative linguistics of a number of other language families. Ch. 17 (485-506) considers long distance comparison and the significant danger presented by chance similarities and takes pains to explain the problems 
TI - Greek forms of address from Herodotus to Lucian by Eleanor Dickey (review)
JF - Language
DA - 2015-04-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/linguistic-society-of-america/greek-forms-of-address-from-herodotus-to-lucian-by-eleanor-dickey-We7V0kmXW0
SP - 644
EP - 647
VL - 74
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -