Song

Ohb Linguistic Typology Ohbk C

Ed.: Song, Jae J.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book 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.

Produktdetails

• Oxford Handbooks
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 704
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 255mm x 182mm x 51mm
• Gewicht: 1492g
• ISBN-13: 9780199281251
• ISBN-10: 0199281254
• Artikelnr.: 31804835

Autorenporträt

Jae Jung Song was Professor of Linguistics at the University of Otago. Among his research interests were linguistic typology, Korean linguistics, Oceanic linguistics, and language policy. His books include Linguistic Typology: Morphology and Syntax (Longman, 2001), The Korean Language: Structure, Use and Context (Routledge, 2005), and Word Order (CUP, 2012), and, as editor, The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Typology (OUP, 2010; paperback 2013). He had held visiting appointments with Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Leipzig) and La Trobe University (Melbourne).

Inhaltsangabe

* 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 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: Seppt 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

Rezensionen

Especially useful for readers who are not themselves engaged in mainstream typology but who wish to follow or catch up on it. Anthropological Linguistics