Alfieri Luca, Arcodia Giorgio Francesco, Ramat Paolo (Eds.). Linguistic Categories, Language Description and Linguistic Typology

John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2021. — 432 p. — (Typological Studies in Language 132).Few issues in the history of the language sciences have been an object of as much discussion and controversy as linguistic categories. The eleven articles included in this volume tackle the issue of categories from a wide range of perspectives and with different foci, in the context of the current debate on the nature and methodology of the research on comparative concepts – particularly, the relation between the categories needed to describe languages and those needed to compare languages. While the first six papers deal with general theoretical questions, the following five confront specific issues in the domain of language analysis arising from the application of categories. The volume will appeal to a very broad readership: advanced students and scholars in any field of linguistics, but also specialists in the philosophy of language, and scholars interested in the cognitive aspects of language from different subfields (neurolinguistics, cognitive sciences, psycholinguistics, anthropology).Linguistic categories, language description and linguistic typology – An overview - Luca Alfieri, Giorgio Francesco Arcodia and Paolo Ramat
Towards standardization of morphosyntactic terminology for general linguistics - Martin Haspelmath
Universal underpinnings of language-specific categories: A useful heuristic for discovering and comparing categories of grammar and beyond - Martina Wiltschko
Typology of functional domains - Zygmunt Frajzyngier
Theories of language, language comparison, and grammatical description: Correcting Haspelmath - Hans-Heinrich Lieb
Comparative concepts are not a different kind of thing - Tabea Reiner
Essentials of the unityp research project: Attempt of an overview - Hansjakob Seiler (†), Yoshiko Ono and Waldfried Premper
The non-universality of linguistic categories: Evidence from pluractional constructions - Simone Mattiola
Parts of speech, comparative concepts and Indo-European linguistics - Luca Alfieri
Verbal vs. nominal reflexive constructions: A categorial opposition? - Nicoletta Puddu
The category ‘pronoun’ in East and Southeast Asian languages, with a focus on Japanese - Federica Da Milano