New Challenges in Typology: Broadening the Horizons and Redefining the Foundations

Miestamo, Matti / Wälchli, Bernhard

ISBN 10: 3110195925 / ISBN 13: 9783110195927

Edité par Berlin, Walter de Gruyter, 2007

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(Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs, 189); XII, 407 pages; clothbound.

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• Titre: New Challenges in Typology: Broadening the Horizons and Redefining the Foundations
• Éditeur: Berlin, Walter de Gruyter
• Date de parution: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 3110195925
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9783110195927
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1. Auflage
• État de l'article: Wie neu
• État de la jaquette: Ohne Schutzumschlag
• Catalogues du vendeur:
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Synopsis

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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Matti Miestamo, University of Helsinki, Finland; Bernhard Wälchli, University of Konstanz, Germany.