multi-volume work: Language Typology and Language Universals / Sprachtypologie und sprachliche Universalien / La typologie des langues et les universaux linguistiques

Published by De Gruyter Mouton

Language Typology and Language Universals / Sprachtypologie und sprachliche Universalien / La typologie des langues et les universaux linguistiques

An International Handbook / Ein internationales Handbuch / Manuel international

Edited by: Martin Haspelmath, Ekkehard König, Wulf Oesterreicher and Wolfgang Raible

Overview
Volumes

This handbook provides a comprehensive and thorough survey of our current insights into the diversity and unity found across the 6000 languages of this planet. The 125 articles include inter alia chapters on the patterns and limits of variation manifested by analogous structures, constructions and linguistic devices across languages (e.g. word order, tense and aspect, inflection, color terms and syllable structure). Other chapters cover the history, methodology and the theory of typology, as well as the relationship between language typology and other disciplines.

The authors of the individual sections and chapters are for the most part internationally known experts on the relevant topics. The vast majority of the articles are written in English, some in French or German. The handbook is not only intended for the expert in the fields of typology and language universals, but for all of those interested in linguistics. It is specifically addressed to all those who specialize in individual languages, providing basic orientation for their analysis and placing each language within the space of what is possible and common in the languages of the world.

Book 2001

1. Halbband

Haspelmath Martin

Volume 20/1 in the series Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft / Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science [HSK]

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110194036
ISBN:: 9783110194036
ISBN:: 9783110114232
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Linguistic Typology
Subject:: Linguistics, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

Book 2001

2. Halbband Language Typology and Language Universals 2.Teilband

Volume 20/2 in the series Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft / Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science [HSK]

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110194265
ISBN:: 9783110194265
ISBN:: 9783110171549
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Linguistic Typology
Subject:: Linguistics, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton