New Challenges in Typology : : Broadening the Horizons and Redefining the Foundations / / ed. by Matti Miestamo, Bernhard Wälchli.

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• MitwirkendeR: Aldai, Gontzal,; Coupe, A. R.,; Cysouw, Michael,; González, Carolina,; Good, Jeff,; Hildebrandt, Kristine A.,; Miestamo, Matti,; Næss, Åshild,; Puddu, Nicoletta,; Sakel, Jeanette,; Saulwick, Adam,; Verstraete, Jean-Christophe,; Veselinova, Ljuba N.,; Wälchli, Bernhard,; Yu, Alan C. L.,; Zúñiga, Fernando,
• HerausgeberIn: Miestamo, Matti,; Wälchli, Bernhard,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2008]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 189
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (407 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

i-viii -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. Phonology and the interface between -- phonology, morphology, and syntax -- Strong linearity and the typology of -- templates -- The Phonology-Morphology Interface from the -- perspective of infixation -- Typological evidence for the separation between -- stress and foot structure -- Tone in Bodish languages: Typological and -- sociolinguistic contributions -- Part II. Morphology, the lexicon, and the structure -- of words -- Rembarrnga polysynthesis in cross-linguistic -- perspective -- Suppletion from a typological perspective -- Lexical classes: A functional approach to “word -- formation” -- Part III. Nominal and verbal morphosyntax in -- interaction: Transitivity and alignment -- Defining transitivity: Markedness vs. -- prototypicality -- From the typology of inversion to the typology of -- alignment -- Part IV. Pronominals -- Building semantic maps: The case of person -- marking -- Typology and historical linguistics: Some remarks -- on reflexives in ancient IE languages -- Part V. Verbal and clausal categories -- Discreteness and non-discreteness in the design of -- tense-aspect-mood -- Symmetric and asymmetric encoding of functional -- domains, with remarks on typological markedness -- The verbness markers of Mosetén from a typological -- perspective -- Part VI. Complex sentences -- Converging patterns of clause linkage in -- Nagaland -- The many faces of subordination, in Germanic and -- beyond -- 385-407