| Author | : Viveka Velupillai |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 540 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027211981 |
Offers an introduction to linguistic typology that covers various linguistic domains from phonology and morphology over parts-of-speech, the NP and the VP, to simple and complex clauses, pragmatics and language change. This title also includes a discussion on methodological issues in typology.
| Author | : Luca Alfieri |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 432 |
| Release | : 2021-07-15 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027259941 |
Few issues in the history of the language sciences have been an object of as much discussion and controversy as linguistic categories. The eleven articles included in this volume tackle the issue of categories from a wide range of perspectives and with different foci, in the context of the current debate on the nature and methodology of the research on comparative concepts – particularly, the relation between the categories needed to describe languages and those needed to compare languages. While the first six papers deal with general theoretical questions, the following five confront specific issues in the domain of language analysis arising from the application of categories. The volume will appeal to a very broad readership: advanced students and scholars in any field of linguistics, but also specialists in the philosophy of language, and scholars interested in the cognitive aspects of language from different subfields (neurolinguistics, cognitive sciences, psycholinguistics, anthropology).
| Author | : Timothy Shopen |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 444 |
| Release | : 1985-07-25 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780521318990 |
The three volumes of Language typology and syntactic description offer a unique survey of syntactic and morphological structure in the languages of the world. Topics covered include parts of speech; passives; complementation; relative clauses; adverbial clauses; inflectional morphology; tense; aspect and mood; and deixis. The major ways these notions are realized u=in the languages of the world are explored, and the contributors provide brief sketches of relevant aspects of representative languages. Each volume is written in an accessible style with new concepts explained and exemplified as they are introduced. Although each volume can be read independently, together they provide a major work of reference that will serve as a manual for field workers and anyone interested in cross-linguistic generalizations.
| Author | : Alice Caffarel |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 726 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9781588115591 |
This book is intended as a systemic functional contribution to language typology both for those who would like to understand and describe particular languages against the background of generalizations about a wide range of languages and also for those who would like to develop typological accounts that are based on and embody descriptions of the systems of particular languages (rather than isolated constructions). The book is a unique contribution in at least two respects. On the one hand, it is the first book based on systemic functional theory that is specifically concerned with language typology. On the other hand, the book combines the particular with the general in the description of languages: it presents comparable sketches of particular languages while at the same time identifying generalizations based on the languages described here as well as on other languages. The volume explores eight languages, covering seven language families: French, German, Pitjantjatjara, Tagalog, Telugu, Vietnamese, Chinese, and Japanese.
| Author | : Bernard Comrie |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 286 |
| Release | : 1989-07-15 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780226114330 |
Here, Comrie (linguistics, U. of Southern Cal.) is particularly concerned with syntactico-semantic universals, devoting chapters to word order, case marking, relative clauses, and causative constructions. This second edition takes full account of new research into generative grammatical theory. Acidic paper. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
| Author | : Edith A. Moravcsik |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 323 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0521193400 |
This textbook provides an introduction to language typology which assumes minimal prior knowledge of linguistics.
| Author | : Masayoshi Shibatani |
| Publisher | : Clarendon Press |
| Total Pages | : 398 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780198238669 |
Language typology is concerned with the construction of theoretical frameworks capable of delimiting the range of human languages and of capturing constraints on cross-linguistic variation. This text offers accounts of the theoretical foundations and findings of leading scholars in this field.
| Author | : Jae Jung Song |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 533 |
| Release | : 2018 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0199677093 |
This textbook provides a critical introduction to major research topics and current approaches in linguistic typology. It draws on a wide range of cross-linguistic data to describe what linguistic typology has revealed about language in general and about the rich variety of ways in which meaning and expression are achieved in the world's languages.
| Author | : Joseph Greenberg |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
| Total Pages | : 85 |
| Release | : 2010-12-14 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 311088643X |
“Greenberg’s survey of the earlier history of typology is without rivals, a must read for every linguist who is curious about the intellectual roots of current typology. This wouldn’t be a work by Greenberg if it didn’t go far beyond simple historiography, providing a highly original and readable framework for understanding the earlier efforts.” Prof. Dr. Martin Haspelmath, Max-Planck-Institut für Evolutionäre Anthropologie
