New Challenges in Typology: Transcending the Borders and Refining the Distinctions

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2009

New Challenges in Typology

Transcending the Borders and Refining the Distinctions

Edited by: Patience Epps and Alexandre Arkhipov

Volume 217 in the series Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110219067

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The volume brings together seventeen chapters by typologists and typologically oriented field linguists who have recently completed their Ph.D. theses. Through their case studies of selected theoretically relevant issues the authors highlight the mutual importance of language description, on the one hand, and of cross-linguistically informed theory, on the other. Faced with new data from previously unknown languages and even from lesser-studied varieties of European languages, linguists constantly have to deal with the inadequacy of established concepts and typologies, being pushed to further refine their classifications and to question the accepted borderlines between different categories, types, and levels of linguistic description.

The scope of the individual contributions to the volume varies from worldwide typological samples to family-internal typology to in-depth studies of single languages. The range of linguistic domains addressed include tonology, morphology, syntax, and lexical classes. Among the phenomena scrutinized are clitics, tones, case, agreement/indexation, localization, pluractionality, desideratives, lability, comitative constructions, raising, verb formation, nominal classification, parts of speech, and predicates of change. More general theoretical and methodological issues addressed include such topics as markedness, grammaticalization, lexicalization, and the integration of linguistic data and description.

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. A particular contribution of the volume is to present a synthesis of typological and descriptive approaches to the study of language, and to highlight the fact that broader typological study and the focused investigation of particular languages are interdependent ventures that necessarily inform each other.

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Patience Epps, University of Texas at Austin, USA; Alexandre Arkhipov, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia.

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Frontmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	I
Contents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	VII
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	IX
Introduction Patience Epps and Alexandre Arkhipov Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I. Word and phrase structure
Patterns of clitic placement: Evidence from ‘mixed’ clitic systems Ana R. Luís Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
Eton tonology and morphosyntax: A holistic typological approach Mark L. O. Velde Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
Part II. Case, agreement, and localization
A hierarchical indexation system: The example of Emerillon (Teko) Françoise Rose Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
Where differential object marking and split plurality intersect: Evidence from Hup Patience Epps Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
Syncretisms and neutralizations involving morphological case: Challenges for markedness theory Peter Arkadiev Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
Towards a typology of ‘attachment’ markers: Evidence from East Caucasian languages Dmitry Ganenkov Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
Part III. Tense, aspect, and desire
Revisiting perfect pathways: Trends in the grammaticalization of periphrastic pasts Chad Howe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
Individual-level meanings in the semantic domain of pluractionality Andrey Shluinsky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
The symbiosis of descriptive linguistics and typology: A case study of desideratives Olesya Khanina Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
Part IV. Clause structure and verbal derivation
Comitative as a cross-linguistically valid category Alexandre Arkhipov Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
Towards a typology of labile verbs: Lability vs. derivation Alexander Letuchiy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
Towards the typology of raising: A functional approach Natalia Serdobolskaya Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
Historical pathways in Northern Paiute verb formation Tim Thornes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	295
Part V. Class struggle: Erasing borderlines
Reference and predication in Movima Katharina Haude Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	323
All typologies leak: Predicates of change in Lowland Chontal of Oaxaca Loretta O’Connor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	343
Multidimensional typology and Miraña class markers Frank Seifart Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	365
Part VI. New challenges in methodology
Steps toward a grammar embedded in data Nicholas Thieberger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	389
Backmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	409

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Scholars and Researchers interested in Typology, Linguistic Description, Documentation, and in Linguistic Theory in general
Pages
- Front matter: 11
- Main content: 428
Keywords: Typology; Linguistic Description

eBook

Published: June 5, 2009
ISBN: 9783110219067

Hardcover

Published: June 17, 2009
ISBN: 9783110219050