[Lingtyp] Teaching Linguistic Typology: Experiences with Canonical Typology?

[Anna Margetts]

Hello Tom and Erich,

This sounds like a great project!  We are teaching an undergraduate subject
which combines descriptive morpho-syntax with an introduction to typology.
The core readings are


   - Tallermann’s textbook Understanding Syntax


   - the article by Evans & Levinson 2009 and the peer commentaries
   (assigned in small bits, as a continuing theme distributed across the
   semester)


   - Haspelmath’s chapter on argument indexing - applied to a different
   reference grammar each year as a practice case study


Evans, Nicholas and Levinson, Stephen C., 2009. "The myth of language
universals: Language diversity and its importance for cognitive
science." *Behavioral
and Brain Sciences* 32(5): 429-448.


Haspelmath, Martin. 2013. Argument indexing: a conceptual framework for the
syntax of bound person forms. In Bakker, Dik and Haspelmath, Martin (eds.)
Languages across boundaries: Studies in memory of Anna Siewierska. Berlin:
Mouton De Gruyter. 196-226.





Other readings include

Comrie, Bernard, Matthew S. Dryer, David Gil, Martin Haspelmath. 2013.
Introduction. In: Dryer, Matthew S. & Haspelmath, Martin (eds.) *The World
Atlas of Language Structures Online*. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for
Evolutionary Anthropology. (and other chapters)



Nichols, Johanna. 2007. What, if anything, is typology? *Linguistic
Typology* 11:231-238.


Nichols, Johanna. 1986. Head-marking and dependent-marking grammar.
*Language* 62:56-119.


Shopen (ed) *Language Typology and Syntactic Description. *Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.



Looking forward to your volume!


Cheers,

Anna

On Fri, 14 Feb 2025 at 19:22, Thomas Blake Ennever via Lingtyp <
lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
>
> We would like your help - just a minute - in shaping a volume which we
> hope will be of use to you. At the Surrey Morphology Group, we’re preparing
> an edited volume/reader of papers set within the framework of Canonical
> Typology. We’re keen to make the volume as useful as possible for both
> research and the teaching of typology, and so we are interested to learn
> about your experiences in teaching linguistic typology generally, and
> specifically if you have incorporated Canonical Typology, or papers that
> use it, in your teaching.
>
>
>
> We hope you will be able to respond, even briefly. We’ll make good use of
> your responses in putting the volume together.
>
>
>
> *Responses can be made to the list or directly to Prof. Erich Round
> (e.round at surrey.ac <e.round at surrey.ac>.uk) / Dr Tom Ennever
> (t.ennever at surrey.ac <t.ennever at surrey.ac>.uk). *
>
>
> All the best,
>
> Erich & Tom.
>
>
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