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The Oxford handbook of linguistic typology / edited by Jae Jung Song.

Contributor(s): Series: Oxford handbooks in linguisticsPublication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.Description: 754 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780199658404 (pbk)
  • 0199658404 (pbk)
Other title:
  • Linguistic typology
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Contents:
The (early) history of linguistic typology / Paolo Ramat -- The pioneers of linguistic typology : from Gabelentz to Greenberg / Giorgio Graffi -- Linguistic typology and the study of language / Michael Daniel -- Explaining language universals / Edith A. Moravcsik -- The problem of cross-linguistic identification / Leon Stassen -- Language sampling / Dik Bakker -- Markedness : iconicity, economy, and frequency / Joan Bybee -- Competing motivations / John Haiman -- Categories and prototypes / Johan Van Der Auwera and Volker Gast -- Implicational hierarchies / Greville G. Corbett -- Processing efficiency and complexity in typological patterns / John A. Hawkins -- Language universals and linguistic knowledge / Sonia Cristofaro -- Word order typology / Jae Jung Song -- Word classes / Walter Bisang -- Case-marking typology / Beatrice Primus -- Person marking / Anna Siewierska -- Transivity typology / Seppo Kittil✹-- Voice typology / Leonid Kulikov -- Grammatical relations typology / Balthasar Bickel -- Typology of tense, aspect, and modality systems / Ferdinand De Haan -- Syntactic typology / Lindsay Whaley -- Morphological typology / Dunstan Brown -- Semantic typology / Nicholas Evans -- Typology of phonological systems / Ian Maddieson -- Linguistic typology and historical linguistics / Kenneth Shields -- Linguistic typology and language contact / Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm -- Linguistic typology and first language acquisition / Melissa Bowerman -- Linguistic typology and second language acquisition / Fred R. Eckman -- Linguistic typology and language documentation / Patience Epps -- Linguistic typology and formal grammar / Maria Polinsky.
Summary: This volume provides a critical state-of-the-art overview of work in linguistic typology. It examines the directions and challenges of current research and shows how these reflect and inform work on the development of linguistic theory.
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Originally published: 2011.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The (early) history of linguistic typology / Paolo Ramat -- The pioneers of linguistic typology : from Gabelentz to Greenberg / Giorgio Graffi -- Linguistic typology and the study of language / Michael Daniel -- Explaining language universals / Edith A. Moravcsik -- The problem of cross-linguistic identification / Leon Stassen -- Language sampling / Dik Bakker -- Markedness : iconicity, economy, and frequency / Joan Bybee -- Competing motivations / John Haiman -- Categories and prototypes / Johan Van Der Auwera and Volker Gast -- Implicational hierarchies / Greville G. Corbett -- Processing efficiency and complexity in typological patterns / John A. Hawkins -- Language universals and linguistic knowledge / Sonia Cristofaro -- Word order typology / Jae Jung Song -- Word classes / Walter Bisang -- Case-marking typology / Beatrice Primus -- Person marking / Anna Siewierska -- Transivity typology / Seppo Kittil✹-- Voice typology / Leonid Kulikov -- Grammatical relations typology / Balthasar Bickel -- Typology of tense, aspect, and modality systems / Ferdinand De Haan -- Syntactic typology / Lindsay Whaley -- Morphological typology / Dunstan Brown -- Semantic typology / Nicholas Evans -- Typology of phonological systems / Ian Maddieson -- Linguistic typology and historical linguistics / Kenneth Shields -- Linguistic typology and language contact / Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm -- Linguistic typology and first language acquisition / Melissa Bowerman -- Linguistic typology and second language acquisition / Fred R. Eckman -- Linguistic typology and language documentation / Patience Epps -- Linguistic typology and formal grammar / Maria Polinsky.

This volume provides a critical state-of-the-art overview of work in linguistic typology. It examines the directions and challenges of current research and shows how these reflect and inform work on the development of linguistic theory.

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