Language typology and language universals [[electronic resource] ] : an international handbook . Volume 2 / / edited by Martin Haspelmath ... [et al.] = Sprachtypologie und sprachliche Universalien : ein internationales Handbuch / herausgegeben von Martin Haspelmath ... [et al.] = La typologie des langues et les universaux linguistiques : manuel international / edite par Martin Haspelmath ... [et al.]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910145118103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin ; ; New York, : W. de Gruyter, 2001
• ISBN: 1-282-19356-2; 9786612193569; 3-11-019426-0
• Edizione: [Reprint 2017]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1012 p.)
• Collana: Handbooks of linguistics and communication science = Handbucher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft ; ; Bd. 20
• Classificazione: ES 480
• Altri autori (Persone): HaspelmathMartin <1963->
• Disciplina: 410/.1
• Soggetti: Typology (Linguistics); Linguistic universals
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Syntactic Typology -- Word order typology -- Le marquage différentiel de l'objet -- Causatives -- The passive voice -- Verbal reflexives and the middle voice -- Resultative constructions -- Existential constructions -- Predicative possession -- Adnominal possession -- Internal and external possessors -- Complement clauses -- Comparative constructions -- Conditional constructions -- Interrogative constructions -- Hortative constructions -- Exclamative constructions -- Dislocation -- Focus constructions -- Noun phrase coordination -- Converbs -- Reference maintenance in discourse -- Lexical typology -- Lexical typology from a cognitive and linguistic point of view -- Lexical typology from an anthropological point of view -- Universal units in the lexicon -- Kin terms in grammar -- Derivation -- Color terms -- Spatial dimension terms -- Quantifiers -- Verbs of perception -- Phonology-based typology -- Silbenstruktur -- Phonologische Prozesse -- Metrical patterns -- Tone systems -- Intonation -- Salient typological parameters -- Silben- und ; akzentzählende Sprachen -- Finite vs. non-finite languages -- Subject-oriented vs. subjectless languages -- Head-marking vs. dependent-marking languages -- Configurationality and polysynthesis -- Discourse configurationality -- Typological characterization of language families and linguistic areas -- Principles of areal typology -- Arealtypologie und Dialektologie -- The European linguistic area: Standard Average European -- Aire linguistique balkanique -- Südasien als Sprachbund -- Mesoamerica as a linguistic area -- Diachronic aspects of language types and linguistic universals -- Historizität - Sprachvariation, Sprachverschiedenheit, Sprachwandel -- Pathways of lexicalization -- Les processus de grammaticalisation -- Conceptions of typological change -- Contact-induced typological change -- Typology and universals of Pidginization -- Creolization -- Typological changes in language obsolescence -- 'Tote' Sprachen -- From Latin to the Romance languages -- From Ancient Germanic to modern Germanic languages -- Vom Alttürkischen zu den modernen Türksprachen -- From Ancient Egyptian to Coptic -- Vom Altäthiopischen zu den neuäthiopischen Sprachen -- Die kaukasischen Sprachen -- Indexes -- Index of names -- Index of languages -- Index of subjects
• Sommario/riassunto: This series of HANDBOOKS OF LINGUISTICS AND COMMUNICATION SCIENCE is designed to illuminate a field which not only includes general linguistics and the study of linguistics as applied to specific languages, but also covers those more recent areas which have developed from the increasing body of research into the manifold forms of communicative action and interaction.For ""classic"" linguistics there appears to be a need for a review of the state of the art which will provide a reference base for the rapid advances in research undertaken from a variety of theoretical standpoints, while in the m