Language Universals and Linguistic Typology
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Language Universals and Linguistic Typology is a foundational linguistics book that systematically compares the structures of the world’s languages to identify cross-linguistic patterns and constraints.
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| Language Universals and Linguistic Typology canonical | 1 |
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| instanceOf |
academic monograph
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book ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
formulate constraints on possible human languages
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identify cross-linguistic patterns ⓘ |
| approach | functional-typological ⓘ |
| author | Bernard Comrie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| covers |
Greenbergian universals
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active-stative alignment ⓘ agglutinative vs fusional morphology ⓘ analytic vs synthetic morphology ⓘ basic word order types ⓘ ergative-absolutive alignment ⓘ head-marking vs dependent-marking ⓘ nominative-accusative alignment ⓘ polysynthetic languages ⓘ |
| examines |
agreement systems
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alignment types ⓘ case marking systems ⓘ gender systems ⓘ mood and modality ⓘ negation patterns ⓘ numeral systems ⓘ relative clauses ⓘ tense-aspect systems ⓘ voice and valency ⓘ word order correlations ⓘ |
| field |
language universals
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linguistic typology ⓘ linguistics ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
constraints on possible human languages
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cross-linguistic comparison ⓘ implicational universals ⓘ language universals ⓘ morphological typology ⓘ phonological typology ⓘ semantic typology ⓘ structural properties of languages ⓘ syntactic typology ⓘ word order typology ⓘ |
| influenced |
functional typology
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language documentation and description ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| publisher |
Basil Blackwell
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University of Chicago Press NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| status | foundational work in linguistic typology ⓘ |
| usedAs | textbook in linguistics courses ⓘ |
| usesMethod |
comparative method in linguistics
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cross-linguistic sampling ⓘ |
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