Linguistic Typology: Morphology and SyntaxLanguage typology is the study of the structural similarities between languages regardless of their history, to establish a classification or typology of languages. It is a core topic of historical linguistics and is studied on all traditional linguistics degree courses. In recent years there has been increased interest the subject and it is an area we have been looking to commission a book in. Jae Jung Song proposes to introduce the undergraduate reader to the subject, with discussion of topics which include - what is language typology and why is it studied; word order; language sampling; relative clauses; diachronic typology; and applications of language typology. There will also be discussion of the most prominent areas of research in the subject and readers will be able to review data selected from a wide range of languages to see how languages work and how differently they behave. |
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Basic word order | 2 |
Causatives | 5 |
Relative clauses | |
The application of linguistic typology | |
European approaches to linguistic typology | |
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active-stative adpositional phrase adpositions affixes alignment animacy antipassive basic word order Bybee causation caused event causee NP cent co-occurrences Comrie constituents cross-linguistic dependent marking direct object direct object NP discussion distribution Dixon Dryer Dyirbal EIC ratio ergative ergative-absolutive ergative-absolutive system explain frequency function genetic grammatical relations Greenberg 1963b Hawkins Hawkins’s head marking head noun implicational universal instance intransitive verbs Keenan language sampling language universals lexical linguistic areas linguistic typology Mallinson and Blake markers marking system modifiers morphological Nichols Nominal Hierarchy nominative-accusative nominative-accusative system non-phrasal NRel OV languages phrasal categories position postpositions predictions prefix prepositions principle pronominal RC type reference relative clause relativization RelN restricting clause semantic sentence Siewierska 1996 split-ergative structure suffix syntactic Table theory Tomlin transitive clause typologists V-final languages V-initial languages Vennemann VO languages W.P. Lehmann whereas word order properties word order type word order typology