Approaches to Language Typology
by Shibatani, Masayoshi; Bynon, TheodoraFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1999-06-10
Publisher(s): Clarendon Press
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Summary
What do all languages have in common, and what gives each language its individuality? These typological questions are fundamental to linguistic theory. This collection comprises original contributions from leading scholars of the major schools of contemporary typological research, from the Prague School to the Generative Grammar tradition. Each contributor presents the theoretical foundations and practical achievements of his or her approach to language typology; the whole provides a unique overview of a field characterized by its diversity.
Table of Contents
| Approaches to Language Typology: A Conspectus | |
| Typological Comparison: Towards a Historical Perspective | |
| Prague School Typology | |
| Modern Syntactic Typology | |
| The Diachronic Typological Approach to Language | |
| Typological Research on Actancy: The Paris RIVALC Group | |
| The St Petersburg/Leningrad Typology Group | |
| Cognitive-Conceptual Structure and Linguistic Encoding: Language Universals and Typology in the UNITYP Framework | |
| The Principles-and-Parameters Approach: A Comparative Syntax of Engish and Japanese | |
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