Language Typology Preliminaries and Principles

Contents

Contents

List of tables

List of figures

Preface

Contributors

List of abbreviations

CHAPTER 1

1A What is linguistics? What is language?

1B What is language typology?

CHAPTER 2

2A The history of linguistic research. (From Sanskrit discovery up to 20th century)

2B The forerunners of language typology

CHAPTER 3

3A The history of the English language

3B Genealogical classification of languages

CHAPTER 4

4A Phonetics and phonology

4B Phonological typology

CHAPTER 5

5A Morphology

5B Morphological typology

CHAPTER 6

6A Syntax

6B Syntactic typology

CHAPTER 7

7A Lexicon

7B Lexical typology

CHAPTER 8

8A Language contact

8B Areal typology

CHAPTER 9

9A Contrastive and comparative linguistics

9B Language universals

CHAPTER 10

10A Linguistics in the 20th century and beyond

10B How to approach language typology?

CHAPTER 11

11A Methodology of linguistic research

11B How do typologists work?

References

Subject Index