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What is universal about typology?

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Veröffentlicht/Copyright: 31. Juli 2007
Linguistic Typology
Aus der Zeitschrift Band 11 Heft 1

Abstract

1. Introduction

The study of language typology has often been viewed as a rather special endeavor with few if any similarities to other pursuits within linguistics and outside it. Here are three such oppositions.

a. Language-typological generalizations are different from single-language rules.

b. Language-typological generalizations are different from theoretical claims.

c. Language-typological generalizations are different from explanatory principles: they describe but do not explain.

*Correspondence address:Department of Foreign Languages and Linguistics, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI 53201-0413, U.S.A.
Received: 2007-01-05
Published Online: 2007-07-31
Published in Print: 2007-07-20

© Walter de Gruyter

Artikel in diesem Heft

  1. Preface
  2. What or where can we do better? Some personal reflections on (the tenth anniversary of) Linguistic Typology
  3. Wider and deeper
  4. What is universal about typology?
  5. Extent and limits of linguistic diversity as the remit of typology – but through constraints on what is diversity limited?
  6. Representative sampling and typological explanation: A phenomenological lament
  7. Typology and linguistic theory in the past decade: A personal view
  8. A note on linguistic theory and typology
  9. The importance of typology in explaining recurrent sound patterns
  10. Linguistic typology: Morphology
  11. Pre-established categories don't exist: Consequences for language description and typology
  12. Linguistic typology requires crosslinguistic formal categories
  13. Typological approaches to lexical semantics
  14. Chinese linguistics and typology: The state of the art
  15. Interfaces between linguistic typology and child language research
  16. Typology in American linguistics: An appraisal of the field
  17. What, if anything, is typology?
  18. Typology in the 21st century: Major current developments
  19. Some thoughts on the reason for the lesser status of typology in the USA as opposed to Europe
  20. Methodology and the empirical base of typology
  21. Where's phonology in typology?
  22. Linguistic typology and theory construction: Common challenges ahead
  23. On the relationship of typology to theoretical syntax
  24. A few lessons from typology
https://doi.org/10.1515/LINGTY.2007.004

Artikel in diesem Heft

  1. Preface
  2. What or where can we do better? Some personal reflections on (the tenth anniversary of) Linguistic Typology
  3. Wider and deeper
  4. What is universal about typology?
  5. Extent and limits of linguistic diversity as the remit of typology – but through constraints on what is diversity limited?
  6. Representative sampling and typological explanation: A phenomenological lament
  7. Typology and linguistic theory in the past decade: A personal view
  8. A note on linguistic theory and typology
  9. The importance of typology in explaining recurrent sound patterns
  10. Linguistic typology: Morphology
  11. Pre-established categories don't exist: Consequences for language description and typology
  12. Linguistic typology requires crosslinguistic formal categories
  13. Typological approaches to lexical semantics
  14. Chinese linguistics and typology: The state of the art
  15. Interfaces between linguistic typology and child language research
  16. Typology in American linguistics: An appraisal of the field
  17. What, if anything, is typology?
  18. Typology in the 21st century: Major current developments
  19. Some thoughts on the reason for the lesser status of typology in the USA as opposed to Europe
  20. Methodology and the empirical base of typology
  21. Where's phonology in typology?
  22. Linguistic typology and theory construction: Common challenges ahead
  23. On the relationship of typology to theoretical syntax
  24. A few lessons from typology
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