Overview

This handbook 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. It describes what typologists have revealed about language in general and discovered (and continue to discover) about the richly various ways in which meaning and expression are achieved in the world's languages. Typological research extends across all branches of linguistics. The degree to which the characteristics of language are universal or particular is crucial to the understanding of language and its relation to human nature and culture. This book is an essential source of reference for linguists of all theoretical persuasions. It is a vital companion for all those working in linguistic typology or undertaking linguistic fieldwork on one or more languages.

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Author:   Jae Jung Song (Associate Professor of Linguistics, University of Otago)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.20cm , Height: 4.30cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   1.326kg
ISBN:  

9780199658404

ISBN 10:   0199658404
Pages:   776
Publication Date:   28 March 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Part I: Foundations: History, Theory, and Method 1: Paolo Ramat: The (Early) History of Linguistic Typology 2: Giorgi Graffi: The Pioneers of Linguistic Typology: From Gabelentz to Greenberg 3: Michael Daniel: Linguistic Typology and the Study of Language 4: Edith A. Moravcsik: Explaining Language Universals 5: Leon Stassen: The Problem of Cross-linguistic Identification 6: Dik Bakker: Language Sampling Part II: Theoretical Dimensions of Linguistic Typology 7: Joan Bybee: Markedness: Iconicity, Economy, and Frequency 8: John Haiman: Competing Motivations 9: Johan van der Auwera and Volker Gast: Categories and Prototypes 10: Greville G. Corbett: Implicational Hierarchies 11: John A. Hawkins: Processing Efficiency and Complexity in Typological Patterns 12: Sonia Cristofaro: Language Universals and Linguistic Knowledge Part III: Empirical Dimensions of Linguistic Typology 13: Jae Jung Song: Word Order Typology 14: Walter Bisang: Word Classes 15: Beatrice Primus: Case-Marking Typology 16: Anna Siewierska: Person Marking 17: Seppo Kittilä: Transitivity Typology 18: Leonid Kulikov: Voice Typology 19: Balthasar Bickel: Grammatical Relations Typology 20: Ferdinand de Haan: Typology of Tense, Aspect, and Modality Systems 21: Lindsay Whaley: Syntactic Typology 22: Dunstan Brown: Morphological Typology 23: Nicholas Evans: Semantic Typology 24: Ian Maddieson: Typology of Phonological Systems Part IV: Linguistic Typology in a Wider Context 25: Kenneth Shields: Linguistic Typology and Historical Linguistics 26: Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm: Linguistic Typology and Language Contact 27: Melissa Bowerman: Linguistic Typology and First Language Acquisition 28: Fred R. Eckman: Linguistic Typology and Second language Acquisition 29: Patience Epps: Linguistic Typology and Language Documentation 30: Maria Polinsky: Linguistic Typology and Formal Grammar References Author Index Language Index Subject Index

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Especially useful for readers who are not themselves engaged in mainstream typology but who wish to follow or catch up on it. Anthropological Linguistics

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Jae Jung Song is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Otago. His books include Causatives and Causation: A Universal-Typological Perspective (Addison Wesley Longman 1996); Case, Typology and Grammar, co-edited with Anna Siewierska (Benjamins 1998); Linguistic Typology: Morphology and Syntax (Pearson 2001); The Korean Language: Structure, Use and Context (Routledge 2005); and Frontiers of Korean Language Acquisition (Saffron Books 2006). He has held visiting appointments with Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Leipzig), and La Trobe University (Melbourne).

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