@inbook{f09c85f50bf8415d9a0b408e270ab10f,
title = "Creolization in the Divergence of Tibeto-Burman Languages",
abstract = "One dimension along which language families differ considerably is in the range of typological variation across languages of the same stock. Indo-European, for example, shows dramatic divergence in word order patterning (contrast Irish, English, and Bengali) and inflectional complexity (contrast Russian and English). We have long been aware that typological divergence is often a result of contact with other languages: the typological consistency of Indic with the OV patterns of its South Asian neighbors, or the fact that within Finno-Ugric we find tendencies toward VO typology in Europe rather than Siberia, are hardly coincidental.",
keywords = "Language in Time and Space (incl Historical Linguistics, Dialectology), Linguistic Structures (incl Grammar, Phonology, Lexicon, Semantics)",
author = "Scott Delancey",
year = "2014",
doi = "10.1515/9783110310832.41",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783110310832",
series = "Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs (TiLSM)",
publisher = "De Gruyter Mouton",
number = "266",
pages = "41--70",
editor = "Thomas Owen-Smith and \{W Hill\}, Nathan",
booktitle = "Trans-Himalayan Linguistics: Historical and Descriptive Linguistics of the Himalayan Area",
edition = "1",
}