An Introduction to Linguistic Typology
Title | An Introduction to Linguistic Typology PDF eBook |
Author | Viveka Velupillai |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Pages | 540 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9027211981 |
Offers an introduction to linguistic typology that covers various linguistic domains from phonology and morphology over parts-of-speech, the NP and the VP, to simple and complex clauses, pragmatics and language change. This title also includes a discussion on methodological issues in typology.
An Introduction to Linguistic Typology
Title | An Introduction to Linguistic Typology PDF eBook |
Author | Viveka Velupillai |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Pages | 541 |
Release | 2012-08-08 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9027273502 |
This clear and accessible introduction to linguistic typology covers all linguistic domains from phonology and morphology over parts-of-speech, the NP and the VP, to simple and complex clauses, pragmatics and language change. There is also a discussion on methodological issues in typology. This textbook is the first introduction that consistently applies the findings of the World Atlas of Language Structures, systematically includes pidgin and creole languages and devotes a section to sign languages in each chapter. All chapters contain numerous illustrative examples and specific feature maps. Keywords and exercises help review the main topics of each chapter. Appendices provide macro data for all the languages cited in the book as well as a list of web sites of typological interest. An extensive glossary gives at-a-glance definitions of the terms used in the book. This introduction is designed for students of courses with a focus on language diversity and typology, as well as typologically-oriented courses in morphology and syntax. The book will also serve as a guide for field linguists.
Introducing Language Typology
Title | Introducing Language Typology PDF eBook |
Author | Edith A. Moravcsik |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 323 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0521193400 |
This textbook provides an introduction to language typology which assumes minimal prior knowledge of linguistics.
Introduction to Typology
Title | Introduction to Typology PDF eBook |
Author | Lindsay J. Whaley |
Publisher | SAGE |
Pages | 356 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780803959637 |
Ideal in introductory courses dealing with grammatical structure and linguistic analysis, Introduction to Typology overviews the major grammatical categories and constructions in the world's languages. Framed in a typological perspective, the constant concern of this primary text is to underscore the similarities and differences which underlie the vast array of human languages.
Linguistic Typology
Title | Linguistic Typology PDF eBook |
Author | Jae Jung Song |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 533 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0199677093 |
This textbook provides a critical introduction to major research topics and current approaches in linguistic typology. It draws on a wide range of cross-linguistic data to describe what linguistic typology has revealed about language in general and about the rich variety of ways in which meaning and expression are achieved in the world's languages.
The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Typology
Title | The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Typology PDF eBook |
Author | Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 1661 |
Release | 2017-03-30 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1316790665 |
Linguistic typology identifies both how languages vary and what they all have in common. This Handbook provides a state-of-the art survey of the aims and methods of linguistic typology, and the conclusions we can draw from them. Part I covers phonological typology, morphological typology, sociolinguistic typology and the relationships between typology, historical linguistics and grammaticalization. It also addresses typological features of mixed languages, creole languages, sign languages and secret languages. Part II features contributions on the typology of morphological processes, noun categorization devices, negation, frustrative modality, logophoricity, switch reference and motion events. Finally, Part III focuses on typological profiles of the mainland South Asia area, Australia, Quechuan and Aymaran, Eskimo-Aleut, Iroquoian, the Kampa subgroup of Arawak, Omotic, Semitic, Dravidian, the Oceanic subgroup of Austronesian and the Awuyu-Ndumut family (in West Papua). Uniting the expertise of a stellar selection of scholars, this Handbook highlights linguistic typology as a major discipline within the field of linguistics.
Language Universals and Linguistic Typology
Title | Language Universals and Linguistic Typology PDF eBook |
Author | Bernard Comrie |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 286 |
Release | 1989-07-15 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780226114330 |
Here, Comrie (linguistics, U. of Southern Cal.) is particularly concerned with syntactico-semantic universals, devoting chapters to word order, case marking, relative clauses, and causative constructions. This second edition takes full account of new research into generative grammatical theory. Acidic paper. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR