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Phonological Typology Hyman, Larry M; Plank, Frans
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Despite earlier work by Trubetzkoy, Jakobson and Greenberg, phonological typology is often underrepresented in typology textbooks. At the same time, most phonologists do not see a difference between ...phonological typology and cross-linguistic (formal) phonology. The purpose of this book is to bring together leading scholars to address the issue of phonological typology, both in terms of the unity and the diversity of phonological systems.
The result of over five years of close collaboration among an international group of leading typologists within the EUROTYP program, this volume is about the morphology and syntax of the noun phrase. ...Particular attention is being paid to nominal inflectional categories and inflectional systems and to the syntax of determination, modification, and conjunction. Its areal focus, like that of other EUROTYP volumes, is on the languages of Europe, but in order to appreciate what is peculiarly European about their noun phrases, a more comprehensive and genuinely typological view is being taken at the full range of cross-linguistic variation within this structural domain. There has been no shortage lately of contributions to the theory of noun phrase structure, the present volume is, however, unique in the extent to which its theorizing is empirically grounded.
The term "Suffixaufnahme" and an early typological embedding of this kind of agreement in case between a case-marked noun and a dependent noun, itself case-marked for dependency, is due to Franz ...Nikolaus Finck (1910). Finck's contention that Suffixaufnahme is something unusual was belittled, if only in the privacy of his study, by Hugo Schuchardt, at permanent loggerheads with Finck over typological issues. A re-examination of the status of Suffixaufnahme as a rarum, 27 years after a collective volume on this topic, Double Case (1995), bears out Finck as well as that collective project. However, the significance of questions posed by unequal crosslinguistic distributions is only beginning to be recognised now.
This is a collection of previously unpublished essays on an unusual and little known pattern of case agreement in the noun phrase. The contributors examine the pattern as it occurs in a wide variety ...of languages. The volume will be the definitive comparative study of a phenomenon not previously studied in any comprehensive way.
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Or would it not? Has LT, short for Linguistic Typology, been mistitled? Is the journal’s name misleading or mystifying, sending prospective authors elsewhere and deterring rather than enticing the ...reading public, yearning though it is to be enlightened? ’Tis but thy name that is my enemy?As it is, the name consists of a relational adjective modifying a noun, and the construction is not wildly non-compositional. Perhaps regrettably, one sense of linguist, that which continues to be uppermost on the mind of the English-speaking man and woman in the street, is not saliently retained in linguistic(s), hence not in syntactic constructions that it enters, either.
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