The Oxford handbook of linguistic typology /
Linguistic typology.
edited by Jae Jung Song.
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
- 754 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- Oxford handbooks in linguistics. .
- Oxford handbooks in linguistics. .
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 Kittilā¹-- 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.