Linguistic Typology

Herausgeber: Nikolaeva, Irina

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a state-of-the-art overview of work on linguistic typology, its history, its methodology, theoretical foundations and major achievements. It examines the directions of current research and shows how these reflect and inform work on linguistic theory.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 478
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 878g
• ISBN-13: 9781138342507
• ISBN-10: 1138342505
• Artikelnr.: 69897219

Inhaltsangabe

Part 6: Language universals and their explanation 1. On explaining language
universals 2. The myth of language universals: Language diversity and its
importance for cognitive science Part 7: Implicational relations and their
modelling 3. Competing motivations and emergence: Explaining implicational
hierarchies 4. Frequency vs. iconicity in explaining grammatical
asymmetries 5. Analyzing semantic maps: A multifactorial approach Part 8:
Cross-linguistic categories and cross-linguistic comparability 6.
Comparative concepts and descriptive categories in crosslinguistic studies
7. On categorization: Stick to the facts of the languages Part 9: Language
sampling 8. A dynamic approach to the verification of distributional
universals 9. A refined sampling procedure for genealogical control 10.
Sampling for variety Part 10: Quantitative methods 11. Inferring universals
from grammatical variation: multidimensional scaling for typological
analysis 12. Adding typology to lexicostatistics: A combined approach to
language classification 13. Distributional typology: Statistical inquiries
into the dynamics of linguistic diversity