Chapter four: Crisis in formalism? Theory of grammar and empirical data

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Part one
3. Chapter one: The problems of linguistic typology 3
4. Chapter two: Universals and typology 41
5. Chapter three: The typological level. Predicates and arguments 55
6. Chapter four: Crisis in formalism? Theory of grammar and empirical data 71
7. Part two
8. Chapter five: Towards a typology of Common Germanic 101
9. Chapter six: The birth of new morphological categories: the case of the article and relative pronoun in Germanic languages 113
10. Chapter seven: Towards a typology of Pompeian Latin 135
11. Chapter eight: An example of reanalysis: periphrastic forms in the Romance languages’ verb system 141
12. Chapter nine: Sentence negation in Romance and Germanic 165
13. Part three
14. Chapter ten: The language typology of Wilhelm von Humboldt 191
15. Bibliography 215
16. Analytical Index 241
17. Backmatter 245