New challenges in typology [[electronic resource] ] : broadening the horizons and redefining the foundations / / edited by Matti Miestamo, Bernhard Wälchli

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910782777303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, c2007
• ISBN: 1-282-19462-3; 9786612194627; 3-11-019890-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (419 p.)
• Collana: Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs, , 1861-4302 ; ; 189
• Classificazione: ES 480
• Altri autori (Persone): MiestamoMatti <1972->; WälchliBernhard
• Disciplina: 410.1
• Soggetti: Typology (Linguistics)
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. Phonology and the interface between phonology, morphology, and syntax -- Strong linearity and the typology of templates -- The Phonology-Morphology Interface from the perspective of infixation -- Typological evidence for the separation between stress and foot structure -- Tone in Bodish languages: Typological and sociolinguistic contributions -- Part II. Morphology, the lexicon, and the structure of words -- Rembarrnga polysynthesis in cross-linguistic perspective -- Suppletion from a typological perspective -- Lexical classes: A functional approach to "word formation" -- Part III. Nominal and verbal morphosyntax in interaction: Transitivity and alignment -- Defining transitivity: Markedness vs. prototypicality -- From the typology of inversion to the typology of alignment -- Part IV. Pronominals -- Building semantic maps: The case of person marking -- Typology and historical linguistics: Some remarks on reflexives in ancient IE languages -- Part V. Verbal and clausal categories -- Discreteness and non-discreteness in the design of tense-aspect-mood -- Symmetric and asymmetric encoding of functional domains, with remarks on typological markedness -- The verbness markers of Mosetén from a typological perspective -- Part VI. Complex sentences -- Converging patterns of ; clause linkage in Nagaland -- The many faces of subordination, in Germanic and beyond -- Backmatter
• Sommario/riassunto: The sixteen chapters in this volume are written by typologists and typologically oriented field linguists who have completed their Ph.D. theses in the first four years of this millennium. The authors address selected theoretical questions of general linguistic relevance drawing from a wealth of data hitherto unfamiliar to the general linguistic audience. The general aim is to broaden the horizons of typology by revisiting existing typologies with larger language samples, exploring domains not considered in typology before, taking linguistic diversity more seriously, strengthening the connection between typology and areal linguistics, and bridging the gap to other fields, such as historical linguistics and sociolinguistics. The papers cover grammatical phenomena from phonology, morphology up to the syntax of complex sentences. The linguistic phenomena scrutinized include the following: foot and stress, tone, infixation, inflection vs. derivation, word formation, polysynthesis, suppletion, person marking, reflexives, alignment, transitivity, tense-aspect-mood systems, negation, interrogation, converb systems, and complex sentences. More general methodological and theoretical issues, such as reconstruction, markedness, semantic maps, templates, and use of parallel corpora, are also addressed. The contributions in this volume draw from many traditional fields of linguistics simultaneously, and show that it is becoming harder and maybe also less desirable to keep them separate, especially when taking a broadly cross-linguistic approach to language. 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.