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New Challenges in Typology : Broadening the Horizons and Redefining the Foundations.

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 dat...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Miestamo, Matti
Otros Autores: Wlchli, Bernhard
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin : Walter de Gruyter, 2008.
Colección:Trends in Linguistics: Studies & Monographs, v. 189.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Preface / William McGregor
  • Introduction / Matti Miestamo and Bernhard Wälchli
  • Strong linearity and the typology of templates / Jeff Good
  • The Phonology-Morphology Interface from the perspective of infixation / Alan C.L. Yu
  • Typological evidence for the separation between stress and foot structure / Carolina González
  • Tone in Bodish languages: Typological and sociolinguistic contributions / Kristine A. Hildebrandt
  • Rembarrnga polysynthesis in cross-linguistic perspective / Adam Saulwick
  • Suppletion from a typological perspective / Ljuba N. Veselinova
  • Lexical classes: A functional approach to word formation / Bernhard Wälchli
  • Defining transitivity: Markedness vs. prototypicality / Åshild Næss
  • From the typology of inversion to the typology of alignment / Fernando Zúñiga
  • Building semantic maps: The case of person marking / Michael Cysouw
  • Typology and historical linguistics: Some remarks on reflexives in ancient IE languages / Nicoletta Puddu
  • Discreteness and non-discreteness in the design of tense-aspect-mood / Gontzal Aldai
  • Symmetric and asymmetric encoding of functional domains, with remarks on typological markedness / Matti Miestamo
  • The verbness markers of Mosetén from a typological perspective / Jeanette Sakel
  • Converging patterns of clause linkage in Nagaland / A.R. Coupe
  • The many faces of subordination, in Germanic and beyond / Jean-Christophe Verstraete
  • Backmatter.