William CroftTypology and Universals
Herausgeber: Anderson, S. R.; Bresnan, J.
William Croft is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Manchester. His books include Studies in Typology and Diachrony for Joseph H. Greenberg (edited with Keith Denning and Suzanne Kemmer, 1990), Typology and Universals (Cambridge, 1990), Syntactic Categories and Grammatical Relations: the Cognitive Organization of Information (1991), Explaining Language Change: An Evolutionary Approach (2000), and Radical Construction Grammar: Syntactic Theory in Typological Perspective (2001).
1. Introduction
2. Typological classification
3. Implicational universals and competing motivations
4. Grammatical categories: typological markedness
5. Grammatical hierarchies and the semantic map model
6. Prototypes and the interaction of typological patterns
7. Syntactic argumentation and syntactic structure in typology
8. Diachronic typology
9. Typology as an approach to language.
1. Introduction; 2. Typological classification; 3. Implicational universals and competing motivations; 4. Grammatical categories: typological markedness; 5. Grammatical hierarchies and the semantic map model; 6. Prototypes and the interaction of typological patterns; 7. Syntactic argumentation and syntactic structure in typology; 8. Diachronic typology; 9. Typology as an approach to language.
