The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Typology

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-0-19-965840-4
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 776 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 1316 g

This handbook provides a critical state-of-the-art overview of work in linguistic typology. It examines the directions and challenges of current research and shows how these reflect and inform work on the development of linguistic theory. It describes what typologists have revealed about language in general and discovered (and continue to discover) about the richly various ways in which meaning and expression are achieved in the world's languages.

Typological research extends across all branches of linguistics. The degree to which the characteristics of language are universal or particular is crucial to the understanding of language and its relation to human nature and culture. This book is an essential source of reference for linguists of all theoretical persuasions. It is a vital companion for all those working in linguistic typology or undertaking linguistic fieldwork on one or more languages.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Song, Jae Jung

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Part I: Foundations: History, Theory, and Method

- 1: Paolo Ramat: The (Early) History of Linguistic Typology

- 2: Giorgi Graffi: The Pioneers of Linguistic Typology: From Gabelentz to Greenberg

- 3: Michael Daniel: Linguistic Typology and the Study of Language

- 4: Edith A. Moravcsik: Explaining Language Universals

- 5: Leon Stassen: The Problem of Cross-linguistic Identification

- 6: Dik Bakker: Language Sampling

- Part II: Theoretical Dimensions of Linguistic Typology

- 7: Joan Bybee: Markedness: Iconicity, Economy, and Frequency

- 8: John Haiman: Competing Motivations

- 9: Johan van der Auwera and Volker Gast: Categories and Prototypes

- 10: Greville G. Corbett: Implicational Hierarchies

- 11: John A. Hawkins: Processing Efficiency and Complexity in Typological Patterns

- 12: Sonia Cristofaro: Language Universals and Linguistic Knowledge

- Part III: Empirical Dimensions of Linguistic Typology

- 13: Jae Jung Song: Word Order Typology

- 14: Walter Bisang: Word Classes

- 15: Beatrice Primus: Case-Marking Typology

- 16: Anna Siewierska: Person Marking

- 17: Seppo Kittilä: Transitivity Typology

- 18: Leonid Kulikov: Voice Typology

- 19: Balthasar Bickel: Grammatical Relations Typology

- 20: Ferdinand de Haan: Typology of Tense, Aspect, and Modality Systems

- 21: Lindsay Whaley: Syntactic Typology

- 22: Dunstan Brown: Morphological Typology

- 23: Nicholas Evans: Semantic Typology

- 24: Ian Maddieson: Typology of Phonological Systems

- Part IV: Linguistic Typology in a Wider Context

- 25: Kenneth Shields: Linguistic Typology and Historical Linguistics

- 26: Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm: Linguistic Typology and Language Contact

- 27: Melissa Bowerman: Linguistic Typology and First Language Acquisition

- 28: Fred R. Eckman: Linguistic Typology and Second language Acquisition

- 29: Patience Epps: Linguistic Typology and Language Documentation

- 30: Maria Polinsky: Linguistic Typology and Formal Grammar

- References

- Author Index

- Language Index

- Subject Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jae Jung Song is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Otago. His books include Causatives and Causation: A Universal-Typological Perspective (Addison Wesley Longman 1996); Case, Typology and Grammar, co-edited with Anna Siewierska (Benjamins 1998); Linguistic Typology: Morphology and Syntax (Pearson 2001); The Korean Language: Structure, Use and Context (Routledge 2005); and Frontiers of Korean Language Acquisition (Saffron Books 2006). He has held visiting appointments with Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Leipzig), and La Trobe University (Melbourne).