Linguistic Typology

Herausgeber: Nikolaeva, Irina

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume presents an overview of the field of linguistic typology, its history, methodology, theoretical foundations and achievements. It focuses on the major directions of typological research and demonstrates how they reflect and inform the study of language as an academic enterprise.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9781138342484
• ISBN-10: 1138342483
• Artikelnr.: 69898567

Inhaltsangabe

1. General introduction: The scope and the brief history of linguistic
typology Part I: Precursors 1. The pioneers of linguistic typology: From
Gabelentz to Greenberg Part II: Variety of current approaches 2. Typology
in the 21st century: Major current developments 3. Linguistic typology: A
short history and some current issues 4. New approaches to cluster analysis
of typological indices Part III: Typology and theoretical linguistics 5.
Typological evidence and universal grammar 6. On the relationship of
typology to theoretical syntax Part IV: Typology and diachrony 7. Language
change and universals 8. Universals constrain change: Change results in
typological generalizations 9. Competing motivation models and diachrony:
What evidence for what motivations? Part V: Typology and other subfields of
linguistics 10. Processing typology and why psychologists need to know
about it 11. Language documentation and language typology 12. Contributions
of linguistic typology to psycholinguistics 13. Typology and coevolutionary
linguistics