New Challenges in Typology: Broadening the Horizons and Redefining the Foundations

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2007

New Challenges in Typology

Broadening the Horizons and Redefining the Foundations

Edited by: Matti Miestamo and Bernhard Wälchli

Volume 189 in the series Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110198904

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About this book

The sixteen chapters in this volume are written by typologists and typologically oriented field linguists who have completed their Ph.D. theses in the first four years of this millennium. The authors address selected theoretical questions of general linguistic relevance drawing from a wealth of data hitherto unfamiliar to the general linguistic audience. The general aim is to broaden the horizons of typology by revisiting existing typologies with larger language samples, exploring domains not considered in typology before, taking linguistic diversity more seriously, strengthening the connection between typology and areal linguistics, and bridging the gap to other fields, such as historical linguistics and sociolinguistics.

The papers cover grammatical phenomena from phonology, morphology up to the syntax of complex sentences. The linguistic phenomena scrutinized include the following: foot and stress, tone, infixation, inflection vs. derivation, word formation, polysynthesis, suppletion, person marking, reflexives, alignment, transitivity, tense-aspect-mood systems, negation, interrogation, converb systems, and complex sentences. More general methodological and theoretical issues, such as reconstruction, markedness, semantic maps, templates, and use of parallel corpora, are also addressed.

The contributions in this volume draw from many traditional fields of linguistics simultaneously, and show that it is becoming harder and maybe also less desirable to keep them separate, especially when taking a broadly cross-linguistic approach to language. The book is of interest to typologists and field linguists, as well as to any linguists interested in theoretical issues in different subfields of linguistics.

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Matti Miestamo, University of Helsinki, Finland; Bernhard Wälchli, University of Konstanz, Germany.

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Introduction Matti Miestamo and Bernhard Wälchli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I. Phonology and the interface between phonology, morphology, and syntax
Strong linearity and the typology of templates Jeff Good Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
The Phonology-Morphology Interface from the perspective of infixation Alan C. L. Yu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
Typological evidence for the separation between stress and foot structure Carolina González Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
Tone in Bodish languages: Typological and sociolinguistic contributions Kristine A. Hildebrandt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
Part II. Morphology, the lexicon, and the structure of words
Rembarrnga polysynthesis in cross-linguistic perspective Adam Saulwick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
Suppletion from a typological perspective Ljuba N. Veselinova Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
Lexical classes: A functional approach to “word formation” Bernhard Wälchli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
Part III. Nominal and verbal morphosyntax in interaction: Transitivity and alignment
Defining transitivity: Markedness vs. prototypicality Åshild Næss Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
From the typology of inversion to the typology of alignment Fernando Zúñiga Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
Part IV. Pronominals
Building semantic maps: The case of person marking Michael Cysouw Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	225
Typology and historical linguistics: Some remarks on reflexives in ancient IE languages Nicoletta Puddu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249
Part V. Verbal and clausal categories
Discreteness and non-discreteness in the design of tense-aspect-mood Gontzal Aldai Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271
Symmetric and asymmetric encoding of functional domains, with remarks on typological markedness Matti Miestamo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	293
The verbness markers of Mosetén from a typological perspective Jeanette Sakel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	315
Part VI. Complex sentences
Converging patterns of clause linkage in Nagaland A. R. Coupe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	339
The many faces of subordination, in Germanic and beyond Jean-Christophe Verstraete Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	363
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(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Linguists in general, Typologists and Field Linguists in particular, Libraries, Institutes
Pages
- Front matter: 12
- Main content: 407
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 32
- Tables: 32
Keywords: Linguistic Typology; endangered languages

eBook

Published: September 25, 2008
ISBN: 9783110198904

Hardcover

Published: September 17, 2007
ISBN: 9783110195927