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What do all languages have in common, and what gives each language its individuality? These typological questions are fundamental to linguistic ... More

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This book shows that the languages and dialects of Europe are becoming increasingly alike and furthermore that this unifying process goes back to ... More

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How and why are languages constantly changing? Historical linguistics seeks to find out by going beyond the history of individual languages to ... More

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Greenberg s survey of the earlier history of typology is without rivals, a must read for every linguist who is curious about the intellectual roots ... More

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This volume, originally published in Russian in 1983, combines data from a wide range of languages, analyzed with a theoretical apparatus capable of ... More

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This book explores the far-reaching implications of Eleanor Rosch's seminal work on categorization and prototype theory, extending the application of ... More

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Dependent-Head Synthesis in Nivkh has been awarded a prize of the Offermann-Hergarten Donation at the University of Cologne in 2004. The endowments ... More

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This is the first exhaustive investigation of gradience in syntax, conceived of as grammatical indeterminacy. It looks at gradience in English word ... More

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Noam Chomsky's current theory, published in 1995, is known as The Minimalist Program and has been presented as his crowning achievement. It argues, ... More

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This volume presents the first results of a long-term research project, funded by the Italian government, which aims at mapping out the fine ... More

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This collection of previously unpublished articles examines Noam Chomsky's Extended Projection Principle and its relationship to subjects and ... More

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Marit Julien investigates the relation between morphology and syntax, or more specifically, the relation between the form of inflected verbs and the ... More

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This handbook provides a critical state-of-the-art overview of work in linguistic typology. It examines the directions and challenges of current ... More

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Discusses the concept 'word' and its applicability in a range of typologically diverse languages.

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Typological Linguistics, a discipline that goes back to Wilhelm von Humboldt, compares the structures of languages that are not related in their ... More

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The main topics pursued in this volume are based on empirical insights derived from Germanic: logical and typological dispositions about aspect ... More

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The invited contributions to the new volume focus on new areas of numeral research, from cognitive, mathematical historical and typological points of ... More

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