Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT] – serie

No detailed description available for "The Typology of Reflexives".

No detailed description available for "Linguistic Typology".

No detailed description available for "The Typology of Subordination in Georgian and Abkhaz".

No detailed description available for "The Development of Romance Clitic Pronouns".

No detailed description available for "Analyticity and Syntheticity".

No detailed description available for "Transitivity and Discourse Continuity in Chamorro Narratives".

No detailed description available for "Toward a Typology of European Languages".

No detailed description available for "The Pragmatics of Word Order".

No detailed description available for "Tense, Aspect and Action".

No detailed description available for "Paradigms".

No detailed description available for "The Grammar of Inalienability".

No detailed description available for "Meaning and Grammar".

No detailed description available for "Grammatical Relations".

No detailed description available for "Negative Sentences in the Languages of Europe".

No detailed description available for "Converbs in Cross-Linguistic Perspective".

No detailed description available for "Lexical Anaphors and Pronouns in Selected South Asian Languages:".

No detailed description available for "Transforming the Images".

No detailed description available for "The Typology of Adjectival Predication".

No detailed description available for "Adverbial Subordination".

No detailed description available for "Actancy".

No detailed description available for "Adverbial Constructions in the Languages of Europe".

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.

Research on language universals and research on linguistic typology are not antagonistic, but rather complementary approaches to the same fundamental problem: the relationship between the amazing diversity of languages and the profound unity of language. Only if the true extent of typological divergence is recognized can universal laws be formulated. In recent years it has become more and more evident that a broad range of languages of radically different types must be carefully analyzed before general theories are possible. Typological comparison of this kind is now at the centre of linguistic research. The series empirical approaches to language typology presents a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. The distinctive feature of the series is its markedly empirical orientation. All conclusions to be reached are the result of a deepened study of empirical data. General problems are focused on from the perspective of individual languages, language families, language groups, or language samples. Special emphasis is given to the analysis of phenomena from little known languages, which shed new light on long-standing problems in general linguistics. The series is open to contributions from different theoretical persuasions. It thus reflects the methodological pluralism that characterizes the present situation. Care is taken that all volumes be accessible to every linguist and, moreover, to every reader specializing in some domain related to human language. A deeper understanding of human language in general, based on a detailed analysis of typological diversity among individual languages, is fundamental for many sciences, not only for linguists. Therefore, this series has proven to be indispensable in every research library, be it public or private, which has a specialization in language and the language sciences. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert.

No detailed description available for "Word Prosodic Systems in the Languages of Europe".

No detailed description available for "Clitics in the Languages of Europe".

No detailed description available for "Tense and Aspect in the Languages of Europe".

The volume is a collection of papers reporting the results of investigations on the interaction of discourse and sentence structure in the languages of Europe. The subjects discussed in the book include: morphosyntactic characteristics of spontaneous spoken texts; different patterns of word order in a pragmatic perspective; the coding of the pragmatic functions topic and focus in sentences with non-canonical word orders (e.g. dislocations, clefts); the range of functions of verb-subject order in declarative clauses and the notion of theticity; prosodic patterns of de-accenting of given information; deixis and anaphora; coding of definiteness and article systems. The book provides the empirical basis for the comparative survey of major phenomena found in the languages of Europe which have pragmatic relevance. Beside traditional areas of investigation at the interface between syntax and pragmatics such as dislocations, new areas are explored, such as the prosody of given information. Data are considered within a functional-typological approach.

No detailed description available for "Approaches to the Typology of Word Classes".