Cristofaro, Sonia; Zúñiga, Fernando (eds.) (2018). Typological Hierarchies in Synchrony and Diachrony. Typological studies in language: Vol. 121. Amsterdam: John Benjamins 10.1075/tsl.121
Full text not available from this repository. (Request a copy)Typological hierarchies are widely perceived as one of the most important results of research on language universals and linguistic diversity. Explanations for typological hierarchies, however, are usually based on the synchronic properties of the patterns described by individual hierarchies, not the actual diachronic processes that give rise to these patterns cross-linguistically. This book aims to explore in what ways the investigation of such processes can further our understanding of typological hierarchies. To this end, diachronic evidence about the origins of several phenomena described by typological hierarchies is discussed for several languages by a number of leading scholars in typology, historical linguistics, and language documentation. This evidence suggests a rethinking of possible explanations for typological hierarchies, as well as the very notion of typological universals in general. For this reason, the book will be of interest not only to the broad typological community, but also historical linguists, cognitive linguists, and psycholinguists.
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Book (Edited Volume) |
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Division/Institute: |
06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies > Institute of Linguistics |
UniBE Contributor: |
Zúñiga, Fernando |
Subjects: |
400 Language > 410 Linguistics 400 Language > 490 Other languages |
ISSN: |
0167-7373 |
ISBN: |
9789027200266 |
Series: |
Typological studies in language |
Publisher: |
John Benjamins |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Fernando Zúñiga |
Date Deposited: |
07 Aug 2018 10:00 |
Last Modified: |
05 Dec 2022 15:17 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1075/tsl.121 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/119102 |
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