Typology and Universals
Typology and Universals
The second edition of this essential textbook has been thoroughly rewritten and updated to reflect advances in typology and universals over the past decade. It reviews new methodologies such as the semantic map model and questions of syntactic argumentation; discussion of current debates over explanations for specific classes of universals; and comparison of the typological and generative approaches to language.
- Presents a methodological orientation to the study of typology and universals
- Includes phonological, morphological, syntactic and semantic typology
- Expands the discussion of explanations for language universals and theoretical debates between typology and generative grammar
Product details
December 2002Hardback
9780521808842
368 pages
237 × 158 × 29 mm
0.689kg
1 map 16 tables
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Table of Contents
- 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.
