The Role of Typology in the Development of a Scientific Linguistics

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments vii
3. Contents xi
4. Introduction xv
5. PART I TYPOLOGY AND LANGUAGE UNIVERSALS
6. A Quantitative Approach to the Morphological Typology of Language 3
7. The Nature and Uses of Linguistic Typologies 26
8. Some Universals of Grammar with Particular Reference to the Order of Meaningful Elements 40
9. Some Methods of Dynamic Comparison in Linguistics 71
10. Some Generalizations Concerning Glottalic Consonants, Especially Implosives 119
11. The Role of Typology in the Development of a Scientific Linguistics 150
12. Numeral Classifiers and Substantival Number: Problems in the Genesis of a Linguistic Type 166
13. Studies in Numerical Systems 1: Double Numeral Systems 194
14. The Relation of Frequency to Semantic Feature in a Case Language (Russian) 207
15. Dynamic Aspects of Word Order in the Numeral Classifier 227
16. How Does a Language Acquire Gender Markers? 241
17. Generalizations About Numeral Systems 271
18. Universals of Kinship Terminology: Their Nature and the Problem of Their Explanation 310
19. Some Iconic Relationships Among Place, Time, and Discourse Deixis 328
20. The First Person Inclusive Dual as an Ambiguous Category 344
21. PART II STUDIES IN LANGUAGES OF AFRICA AND THE NEAR EAST
22. Review of Guthrie's The Classification of the Bantu Languages 361
23. The Patterning of Root Morphemes in Semitic 365
24. Review of Westermann and Bryan's Languages of West Africa 388
25. Internal a- Plurals in Afroasiatic (Hamito-Semitic) 397
26. The Labial Consonants of Proto-Afro-Asiatic 405
27. The Origin of the Masai Passive 412
28. Linguistic Evidence for the Influence of the Kanuri on the Rausa 419
29. The Interpretation of the Coptic Vowel System 428
30. Review of Fodor's The Problems in the Classification of the African Languages 439
31. Linguistic Evidence Regarding Bantu Origins 446
32. Nilo-Saharan Moveable kas a Stage lll Article (with a Penutian Typological Parallel) 476
33. Some Areal Characteristics of African Languages 484
34. Were There Egyptian Koines? 502
35. PART III VERSE PROSODY
36. Swahili Prosody 523
37. Rausa Verse Prosody 535
38. A Survey of African Prosodic Systems 553
39. PART IV PSYCHOLINGUISTICS
40. Studies in the Psychological Correlates of the Sound System of American English 579
41. A Linguistic Approach to the Meaningfulness of Nonsense Syllables 633
42. PART V LINGUISTIC MODELS AND LINGUISTIC EXPLANATION
43. On the 'Language of Observation' in Linguistics 659
44. Rethinking Linguistics Diachronically 673
45. Types of Linguistic Models in Other Disciplines 692
46. Two Approaches to Language Universals 702
47. Bibliography of the Published Works of Joseph H. Greenberg 723