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New Challenges in Typology - Transcending the Borders and Refining the Distinctions (Hardcover)
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New Challenges in Typology - Transcending the Borders and Refining the Distinctions (Hardcover)
Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]
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The volume brings together seventeen chapters by typologists and
typologically oriented field linguists who have recently completed
their Ph.D. theses. Through their case studies of selected
theoretically relevant issues the authors highlight the mutual
importance of language description, on the one hand, and of
cross-linguistically informed theory, on the other. Faced with new
data from previously unknown languages and even from lesser-studied
varieties of European languages, linguists constantly have to deal
with the inadequacy of established concepts and typologies, being
pushed to further refine their classifications and to question the
accepted borderlines between different categories, types, and
levels of linguistic description. The scope of the individual
contributions to the volume varies from worldwide typological
samples to family-internal typology to in-depth studies of single
languages. The range of linguistic domains addressed include
tonology, morphology, syntax, and lexical classes. Among the
phenomena scrutinized are clitics, tones, case,
agreement/indexation, localization, pluractionality, desideratives,
lability, comitative constructions, raising, verb formation,
nominal classification, parts of speech, and predicates of change.
More general theoretical and methodological issues addressed
include such topics as markedness, grammaticalization,
lexicalization, and the integration of linguistic data and
description. 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. A particular
contribution of the volume is to present a synthesis of typological
and descriptive approaches to the study of language, and to
highlight the fact that broader typological study and the focused
investigation of particular languages are interdependent ventures
that necessarily inform each other.
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