John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1995. — 375 p. — (Studies in Language Companion Series 27). Papers in honor of John W.M. Verhaar This volume combines papers selected for their affinity with work on discourse analysis and language typology. The methodological platform is the authors' conviction that all linguistic work needs to be empirical in the sense that (1)...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2022. — 278 p. — (Studia Typologica 31). In the Iranic-Semitic-Turkic contact area, where many languages are described as verb-final, ‘Targets’ (Goals, Recipients, etc.) tend to appear in the immediate postverbal position, a pattern violating the alleged ‘basic word order’. Investigating empirical material, the present volume examines the idea of its...
Mouton de Gruyter, 1996. — 289 p. — (Empirical Approaches to Language Typology 16). Research on language universals and research on linguistic typology are not antagonistic, but rather complementary approaches to the same fundamental problem: the relationship between the amazing diversity of languages and the profound unity of language. Only if the true extent of typological...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 312 p. — (Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics 40). This is the second book in a two-volume comparative history of negation in the languages of Europe and the Mediterranean. The work integrates typological, general, and theoretical research, documents patterns and directions of change in negation across languages, and examines...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2004. — 717 p. — (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 253). This book is intended as a systemic functional contribution to language typology both for those who would like to understand and describe particular languages against the background of generalizations about a wide range of languages and also for those who would like to develop...
CNRS Editions, 2016. — 329 p. Phénicien, araméen, hébreu, grec, latin, étrusque, berbère, arabe, turc, espagnol, italien, français : ces langues du pourtour méditerranéen nous parlent de l'histoire de ce continent liquide. Elles sont d'abord la trace des empires et puissances qui se sont succédé en Méditerranée, mais aussi celle du commerce des hommes, des idées et des denrées,...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 1996. — 492 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series D 90). The bibliography owes its inception mainly to the work of three linguists, Stephen Wurm, Don Laycock and Bert Voorhoeve, all of whom wrote and cited prodigiously in the 'seventies and the early 'eighties, when the first major efforts towards...
Eurolingua, 1988. — 144 p. — (Bibliotheca nostratica 8). "Language universal" is not a very good term. It has been borrowed from the universal (Latin universale/universalia) concept of philosophy where it is connected with the name of A. M. S Boethius (ca, A.D 480-5241. G. de Champeaux (d. 1211), and Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274). Language Universal (LU) implies that a given...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2015. — 661 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 649). The studies in this book represent the rich, diverse and substantial research being conducted today in the linguistics of Mainland Southeast Asia. The chapters cover a broad scope. Several studies address questions of language relatedness, often challenging conventional assumptions about the status of language...
The Australian National University, College of Asia and the Pacific, 2010. — 319 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 618). East Nusantara’, the name used in the title of this book, refers to the islands of eastern Indonesia and East Timor. ‘Nusantara’ is a term that has come to refer to the Indo-Malaysian archipelago generally, without reference to national borders. For the purpose of...
Walter De Gruyter, 2020. — 510 p. — (Empirical Approaches to Language Typology 65). While much attention has been devoted to simple nominal relators, especially prepositions and case markers, complex nominal relators have not yet been the focus of a systematic and cross-linguistic study. The chapters of this volume provide not only a working definition of such constructions,...
Walter De Gruyter, 2020. — 510 p. — (Empirical Approaches to Language Typology 65). While much attention has been devoted to simple nominal relators, especially prepositions and case markers, complex nominal relators have not yet been the focus of a systematic and cross-linguistic study. The chapters of this volume provide not only a working definition of such constructions,...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2020. — 327 p. — (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] 351). While ample studies exist on ditransitives in various languages, notably from a typological perspective, more work needs to be done on identifying the main processes and factors that trigger and constrain the changes they undergo over time. The goal of this volume is to help fill...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1980. — 443 p. — (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 12). Contrastive Linguistics, roughly defined as a subdiscipline of linguistics which is concerned with the comparison of two or more (subsystems of) languages, has long been associated primarily with language teaching. Apart from this applied aspect, however, it also has a strong...
Acts of the International Colloquium Variations, concurrence et evolution des cas dans divers domaines linguistiques, Paris, 2-4 April 2007. — The University of Chicago Press, 2011. — 428 p. — (Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 64). The volume contains twenty-eight studies of various aspects of the case systems of Sumerian, Hurrian, Elamite, Eblaite, Ugaritic, Old...
Carocci, 2022. — 309 p. — (Studi superiori). La tipologia linguistica studia la variazione linguistica, individuando sia gli aspetti per i quali le lingue non si differenziano (i cosiddetti universali), sia gli schemi che regolano invece la variazione (i cosiddetti tipi linguistici). L'ipotesi di partenza è che la diversità tra le lingue non sia caotica e disordinata, ma, anzi,...
Stanford University Press, 1978. — 307 p. The mainspring of the contemporary interest in language universals is the conviction that linguistics as a science must develop broader goals than the description of the structures of the thousands of individual languages which exist in the present or of which we have records from the past. It must be broader even than a body of...
Stanford University Press, 1978. — 608 p. The mainspring of the contemporary interest in language universals is the conviction that linguistics as a science must develop broader goals than the description of the structures of the thousands of individual languages which exist in the present or of which we have records from the past. It must be broader even than a body of...
Stanford University Press, 1978. — 483 p. The mainspring of the contenporary interest in languages universals is the conviction that linguistics as a science must develop broader goals than the description of the structures of the thousands of individual languages which exist in the present or of which we have records from the past. It must be broader even than a body of...
Stanford University Press, 1978. — 687 p. The mainspring of the contemporary interest in language universals is the conviction that linguistics as a science must develop broader goals than the description of the structures of the thousands of individual languages which exist in the present or of which we have records from the past. It must be broader even than a body of...
Mouton, 1974. — 84 p. — (Janua linguarum: Series minor 184). Greenberg's survey of the earlier history of typology is without rivals, a must read for every linguist who is curious about the intellectual roots of current typology. This wouldn't be a work by Greenberg if it didn't go far beyond simple historiography, providing a highly original and readable framework for...
Walter De Gruyter, 2021. — 930 p. — (Empirical Approaches to Language Typology 64). This volume is the first book-length presentation of the grammatical category of Associated Motion. It provides a framework for understanding a grammatical phenomenon which, though present in many languages, has gone unrecognized until recently. Previously known primarily from languages of...
Walter De Gruyter, 2021. — 932 p. — (Empirical Approaches to Language Typology 64). This volume is the first book-length presentation of the grammatical category of Associated Motion. It provides a framework for understanding a grammatical phenomenon which, though present in many languages, has gone unrecognized until recently. Previously known primarily from languages of...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2019. — 986 p. — (The World of Linguistics 6). The languages of Western Asia belong to a variety of language families, including Indo-European, Kartvelian, Semitic, and Turkic, but share numerous features on account of being in areal contact over many centuries. This volume presents descriptions of the modern languages, contributed by leading specialists, and...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2018. — 986 p. — (The World of Linguistics 6). The languages of Western Asia belong to a variety of language families, including Indo-European, Kartvelian, Semitic, and Turkic, but share numerous features on account of being in areal contact over many centuries. This volume presents descriptions of the modern languages, contributed by leading specialists, and...
Oxford University Press 2005. — 695 p. The World Atlas of Language Structures displays the structural properties of the world's languages. 142 world maps and numerous regional maps - all in colour - display the geographical distribution of features of pronunciation and grammar, such as number of vowels, tone systems, gender, plurals, tense, word order, and body part...
Oxford University Press 2005. — 695 p. The World Atlas of Language Structures displays the structural properties of the world's languages. 142 world maps and numerous regional maps - all in colour - display the geographical distribution of features of pronunciation and grammar, such as number of vowels, tone systems, gender, plurals, tense, word order, and body part...
Oxford University Press 2005. — 695 p. The World Atlas of Language Structures displays the structural properties of the world's languages. 142 world maps and numerous regional maps - all in colour - display the geographical distribution of features of pronunciation and grammar, such as number of vowels, tone systems, gender, plurals, tense, word order, and body part...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2016. — 928 p. — (The World of Linguistics 7). With nearly a quarter of the world’s population, members of at least five major language families plus several putative language isolates, South Asia is a fascinating arena for linguistic investigations, whether comparative-historical linguistics, studies of language contact and multilingualism, or general...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2016. — 927 p. — (The World of Linguistics 7). With nearly a quarter of the world’s population, members of at least five major language families plus several putative language isolates, South Asia is a fascinating arena for linguistic investigations, whether comparative-historical linguistics, studies of language contact and multilingualism, or general...
Edited by Brett Reynolds and Peter Evans. With an introduction by Olli O. Silvennoinen. — Berlin: Language Science Press, 2025. — ix, 251 p. — (Classics in Linguistics 8; ISSN 2366-374X). — ISBN 978-3-96110-500-7. Otto Jespersen’s landmark study of negation provides a wide-ranging analysis of how languages express negative meaning. Drawing on an impressive array of historical...
Autrement, 2001. — 384 p. L'Europe "élargie" peut-elle se bâtir sur le long terme sans une connaissance et une compréhension intimes de l'autre et de ce qui cimente son identité, à savoir sa langue? Or l'Europe des langues paraît être aujourd'hui encore un obstacle insurmontable, une Babel inaccessible. Défiant les idées reçues et les frontières imaginaires, l'auteur nous...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2011. — 933 p. — (The World of Linguistics 1). The Languages and Linguistics of Europe: A Comprehensive Guide is part of the multi-volume reference work on the languages and linguistics of the continents of the world. The book supplies profiles of the language families of Europe, including the sign languages. It also discusses the areal typology, paying...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1986. — 219 p. — (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 47). This volume presents revised versions of papers originally presented at the Colloquium in Linguistic Typology, held in Moscow in 1985. The organizers and participants of the colloquium considered it of great importance to come to terms on primary principles, in order to be able to...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1990. — 223 p. — (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 67). Papers from the Linguistic Typology Symposium, Berkeley, 1-3 Dec 1987 These papers from the 1987 Typology Symposium — a follow-up to the 1985 meeting in Moscow — deal with the relevance of typology for historical linguistics. Its application in understanding phonological and...
The Australian National University, 1966. — 222 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series C 3). The book “A Contrastive Analysis of English and Vietnamese” by Đăng Liêm Nguyẽ̂n provides a comprehensive examination of the grammatical structures in both languages. In Volume 1, the focus is on English grammar, using a combined tagmemic and transformational approach. The analysis proceeds...
Berlin: Language Science Press, 2024. — xv, 765 p. — (Research on Comparative Grammar 4). — ISBN 978-3-96110-475-8. Expressions from the semasiological domain of phasal polarity (ʻstillʼ, ʻalreadyʼ, etc.) tend to be highly polyfunctional, with their various uses often extending into a wide range of other linguistic domains, both time-related and non-temporal. Yet these patterns...
Universitas Szegediensis de Attila József Nominata, 1985. — 310 p. — (Studia uralo-altaica 24). The research presented in this study, according to its theoretical assumptions and methods, belongs the discipline called structural typology. "Structural" has been applied to distinguish this approach from typological investigations that preceded or followed, but ignored the...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2007. — 393 p. — (Studies in Language Companion Series 88). This volume is a collection of 12 papers which originated from a research project on ‘Europe and the Mediterranean from a linguistic point of view: history and prospects’. The papers deal with specific morphosyntactic aspects of language structure and evolution. The comparative...
Mouton de Gruyter, 1987. — 261 p. — (Empirical Approaches to Language Typology 1). Research on language universals and research on linguistic typology are not antagonistic, but rather complementary approaches to the same fundamental problem: the relationship between the amazing diversity of languages and the profound unity of language. Only if the true extent of typological...
Il Mulino, 1984. — 232 p. — (Studi linguistici e semiologici 21). Se è vero, come sostengono molti studiosi, che la linguistica è una disciplina unitaria e come tale va esaminata e studiata, è pur vero anche che all’interno della sua unità si sono identificati settori specifici di ricerca sui quali si concentra l’attenzione degli specialisti. La tipologia linguistica, cioè la...
Institute for the Study of Man, 1994. — 146 p. — (Journal of Indo-European studies: Monograph 12). This study is set up in three major parts. Chapters 1-3 comprise a unit which successively lays out the principles of language relationship & reconstruction of proto-languages, the typological approach to language study, and their integration. Chapter 4 is a concrete look at the...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 2008. — 238 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 594). This volume of new work explores the nature of verb serialisation in a range of languages from the Pacific region – both Austronesian and non-Austronesian. Serial verbs can be described linguistically as a sequence of verbs which behave as a single...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2020. — 354 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 656). By analyzing conceptual transfer this volume offers new insight in areal linguistics. Mainland Southeast Asia unifies great linguistic richness consisting of numerous languages and countless varieties of genetically diverse language families. Nevertheless, the area is known as a prime example for linguistic...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 556 p. — (Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics 5). This volume represents the first of a two-volume work examining the historical development of negation in the languages of Europe and the Mediterranean. It integrates existing work from typological and generative synchronic approaches with detailed philological work on the...