Jae Jung Song

Linguistic Typology (eBook, PDF)

Morphology and Syntax

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Language 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317883432
• Artikelnr.: 41506522

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

1: Linguistic typology: An introductory overview
Part I Foundations: Theory and method
2: Unity and diversity in the world's languages
3: Typological analysis
4: Linguistic typology and other theoretical approaches
5: Language samples and sampling methods
6: Data collection: Sources, issues and problem
7: Typological asymmetry: Economy, iconicity, and frequency
8: Categories, prototypes, and semantic maps
Part II Empirical dimensions
9: Phonological typology
10: Basic word order
11: Case alignment
12: Grammatical relations
13: Valency-manipulating operations
14: Person marking
15: Evidentiality marking