All rights reserved. Book Edited. Aikhenvald, R. Dixon, and Nathan M. More Statistics. Download Free PDF. Linguistic Typology. Dorothea Hoffmann. A short summary of this paper. Topics will include a review of typologies based on word order and morphology and an examination a variety of grammatical and conceptual categories and constructions including case, clause structures, parts of speech, spatial language, predicative and inflectional systems, among others.
We will examine a wide variety of languages from across the globe and take interfaces with language change and language documentation into consideration. Against the background of a corpus of data, we will examine the limits of linguistic variation and the explanations proposed for typological patterns, including information management, cognitive processing, and interactional language use and examine the relationship of typology to genetic and areal linguistics.
The books and online sources below are suggestions for a general introduction and data source and will be utilized in parts during the course.
The list of readings might be subject to change depending on the interests of the class. Typology and universals. Linguistic Typology: Morphology and syntax. Harlow, UK: Longman. Song Jae Jung. This includes active participation in discussions on assigned readings on Chalk prior to the class. Graduate students are additionally expected to lead a class discussion on an assigned reading individually.
Undergraduate students can choose to work in pairs. Working in groups on these assignments is encouraged. However, you are required to write up your answers in your own words. Make sure to discuss how it fits into typological classifications and to answer the question of what is where why? Limit yourself to the structure you have chosen to examine and keep other parts of language description to an absolute minimum. Use a range of different sources for your investigation, including published articles and grammars as well as online databases such as WALS or APiCs.
You may also use your own fieldwork data, however, only after consulting with the instructor. All assignments should be handed in via email as a pdf file by 5pm on the date indicated.
Extensions need to be approved prior to the deadline by the instructor. What, if anything, is typology? Linguistic typology and theory construction: common challenges ahead. Some universals of grammar with particular reference to the order of meaningful elements. Greenberg ed. Austronesian is probably the most widely dispersed language family in the world, consisting of approximately 1, languages stretching from Madagascar in the.
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You can change your cookie settings through your browser. Word in Yalaku, Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald 7. Word in Lao, N. Enfield 8. Word in Hmong, Nathan M. White 9. The notion of 'word' in Makary Kotoko, Sean Allison Index of authors Index of languages, language families, and linguistic areas Index of subjects. Alexandra Y.
She is a major authority on languages of the Arawak family, from northern Amazonia, and has written grammars of Bare and Warekena , plus A Grammar of Tariana, from Northwest Amazonia CUP, and The Manambu Language of East Sepik, Papua New Guinea OUP, ; paperback , in addition to essays on various typological and areal features of South American and Papuan languages and typological issues including evidentials, classifiers, and serial verbs. His academic biography, I am a Linguist , was published by Brill in Nathan M.
His research interests include language typology and documentation, natural language processing methods for minority languages, East and Southeast Asian languages, Semitic languages, and indigenous languages of California. Dixon, James Cook University N. Wojtylak, University of Regensburg.
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