Explanation in typology
This volume provides an up-to-date discussion of a foundational issue that has recently taken centre stage in linguistic typology and which is relevant to the language sciences more generally: To what extent can cross-linguistic generalizations, i.e. statistical universals of linguistic structure, b...
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| description | This volume provides an up-to-date discussion of a foundational issue that has recently taken centre stage in linguistic typology and which is relevant to the language sciences more generally: To what extent can cross-linguistic generalizations, i.e. statistical universals of linguistic structure, be explained by the diachronic sources of these structures? Everyone agrees that typological distributions are the result of complex histories, as “languages evolve into the variation states to which synchronic universals pertain” (Hawkins 1988). However, an increasingly popular line of argumentation holds that many, perhaps most, typological regularities are long-term reflections of their diachronic sources, rather than being ‘target-driven’ by overarching functional-adaptive motivations. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-364382025-07-31T11:01:11Z Explanation in typology Schmidtke-Bode, Karsten Levshina, Natalia Michaelis, Susanne Maria Seržant, Ilja Linguistics thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFF Historical and comparative linguistics This volume provides an up-to-date discussion of a foundational issue that has recently taken centre stage in linguistic typology and which is relevant to the language sciences more generally: To what extent can cross-linguistic generalizations, i.e. statistical universals of linguistic structure, be explained by the diachronic sources of these structures? Everyone agrees that typological distributions are the result of complex histories, as “languages evolve into the variation states to which synchronic universals pertain” (Hawkins 1988). However, an increasingly popular line of argumentation holds that many, perhaps most, typological regularities are long-term reflections of their diachronic sources, rather than being ‘target-driven’ by overarching functional-adaptive motivations. 2021-02-10T12:58:18Z 2019-04-18 23:55 2020-03-10 03:00:38 2020-04-01T10:31:34Z 2019-04-10 book 1004857 OCN: 1100489522 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25237 9783961101474 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/36438 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25237/1/1004857.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25237/1/1004857.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25237/1/1004857.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25237/1/1004857.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25237/1/1004857.pdf Language Science Press 10.5281/zenodo.2583788 10.5281/zenodo.2583788 ed03121b-b998-4b50-8d58-1d0745565558 Knowledge Unlatched b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9783961101474 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Language Science Press 2018-2020 Berlin 104800 Language Science Press 2018 - 2020 open access |
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