[Lingtyp] Edited volume

[Volker Gast]

While I agree with Sebastian that some of the topics discussed on this 
list in the past two weeks or so are important, I disagree that they are 
novel. Wrapping them up in a volume might be a good idea, but the title 
would certainly not be 'New Directions in Linguistic Typology', but 
rather 'Perennial issues in ...' or 'Foundations of Linguistic 
Typology'. I'm not sure if that volume would contain anything 
substantially new, however, in comparison to what some of the 'senior' 
colleagues have written in their published work -- but again, it might 
be useful to bundle the discussion in a single volume. In any case, in 
my view such a volume should also include contributions from what I 
would call 'non-essentialist' typology, as represented in Evans & 
Levinson (2009), for instance.

Volker

Am 27.01.2016 um 09:09 schrieb Sebastian Nordhoff:
>
> The topic is highly relevant, but it also rather novel. It might be a
> good idea to have a workshop at one of the upcoming LSA/SLE/ALT to
> arrive at a common ground and maybe descriptive apparatus for
> formulating our ideas on the matter.
> What do others think?
> Best
> Sebastian
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