Miestamo / Wälchli New Challenges in Typology

Broadening the Horizons and Redefining the Foundations
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-3-11-019890-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 189, 419 Seiten, Gewicht: 10 g

Reihe: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]ISSN

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.

Zielgruppe

Linguists in general, Typologists and Field Linguists in particul

Autoren/Hrsg.

Miestamo, Matti

Wälchli, Bernhard

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Frontmatter;1
2;Contents;9
3;Introduction;13
4;Strong linearity and the typology of templates;23
5;The Phonology-Morphology Interface from the perspective of infixation;47
6;Typological evidence for the separation between stress and foot structure;67
7;Tone in Bodish languages: Typological and sociolinguistic contributions;89
8;Rembarrnga polysynthesis in cross-linguistic perspective;115
9;Suppletion from a typological perspective;139
10;Lexical classes: A functional approach to “word formation”;165
11;Defining transitivity: Markedness vs. prototypicality;191
12;From the typology of inversion to the typology of alignment;211
13;Building semantic maps: The case of person marking;237
14;Typology and historical linguistics: Some remarks on reflexives in ancient IE languages;261
15;Discreteness and non-discreteness in the design of tense-aspect-mood;283
16;Symmetric and asymmetric encoding of functional domains, with remarks on typological markedness;305
17;The verbness markers of Mosetén from a typological perspective;327
18;Converging patterns of clause linkage in Nagaland;351
19;The many faces of subordination, in Germanic and beyond;375
20;Backmatter;397

Über Autor(innen)

Matti Miestamo, University of Helsinki, Finland; Bernhard Wälchli, University of Konstanz, Germany.