Explanation in typology : diachronic sources, functional motivations and the nature of the evidence / / edited by Karsten Schmidtke-Bode, Natalia Levshina, Susanne Maria Michaelis, Ilja A. Seržant

• Autore: Schmidtke-Bode Karsten
• Pubblicazione: Berlin, : Language Science Press, 2019; Berlin, Germany : , : Language Science Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 258 pages) : PDF, digital file(s)
• Disciplina: 410.1
• Soggetto topico: Typology (Linguistics); Historical & comparative linguistics
• Soggetto non controllato: Linguistics
• Persona (resp. second.): Schmidtke-BodeK arsten; LevshinaNatalia; MichaelisSusanne; SeržantIlja A.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume provides an up-to-date discussion of a foundational issue that has recently taken centre stage in linguistic typology and which is relevant to the language sciences more generally: To what extent can cross-linguistic generalizations, i.e. statistical universals of linguistic structure, be explained by the diachronic sources of these structures? Everyone agrees that typological distributions are the result of complex histories, as “languages evolve into the variation states to which synchronic universals pertain” (Hawkins 1988). However, an increasingly popular line of argumentation holds that many, perhaps most, typological regularities are long-term reflections of their diachronic sources, rather than being ‘target-driven’ by overarching functional-adaptive motivations.
• Titolo autorizzato: Explanation in typology
• ISBN: 3-96110-147-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910318334003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Conceptual foundations of language science ; ; 3.