Volume 04, Spring 1978

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Calgary Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 4, Spring 1978
(University of Calgary, 1978-05) De Guzman, Videa P.; Herbert, Robert K.
This issue is the fourth in the series of working papers published by LOGOS, the student linguistics club at The University of Calgary. The series provides a vehicle for publications by faculty members and students; these papers represent research in progress and are therefore not to be considered as final statements by the authors. The appearance of these articles in the current issue does not preclude their publication in altered form elsewhere.
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Comparative and typological perspectives on the reconstruction of the Indo-European "gutturals"
(University of Calgary, 1978-05) Southerland, Ronald H
In recent decades there has been a trend in Indo-European studies to place greater weight on typological considerations than on purely comparative evidence in reconstructions. The most oft-cited study in this regard is, of course, Jakobson (1972), in which the author introduced the notion of implicational universals and lauded the "predictive power" of typological studies in reconstruction (p. 304). The present paper takes issue with the blanket application of typological considerations to problems of comparative reconstruction. The specific problem addressed is the set of "guttural" (an out-dated but still handy cover term for the palatal, velar and labio-velars) stops in Proto-Indo-European.