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New Challenges in Typology - Broadening the Horizons and Redefining the Foundations (Hardcover)
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New Challenges in Typology - Broadening the Horizons and Redefining the Foundations (Hardcover)
Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]
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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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