[Lingtyp] most important works in generative typology

[Neil Myler]

Although he's since moved on to Harvard, another UConn reference here would
be Jonathan Bobaljik's 2012 "Universals in Comparative Morphology" book, as
well as related work by him and his students on other syncretism and
suppletion patterns, like:
https://bobaljik.scholars.harvard.edu/sites/g/files/omnuum5076/files/bobaljik/files/smith2019_article_caseandnumbersuppletioninprono.pdf

Best,
Neil

On Wed, Jul 2, 2025 at 7:19 AM Martin Haspelmath via Lingtyp <
lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org> wrote:

> I would also mention the work done at the University of Connecticut –
> Željko Bošković has supervised quite a few interesting typological
> dissertations over the last two decades:
>
> https://boskovic.linguistics.uconn.edu/teaching-advising/
>
> For a recent example of Željko's work, see his 2025 article on multiple
> wh-fronting (in this LangSci volume:
> https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/481).
>
> There's also a very interesting programmatic paper by Željko, on
> "Formalism AND, not VS, functionalism", in which he says that the two
> approaches are more compatible than is often thought (published in Belgrade
> in 2022):
> http://doi.fil.bg.ac.rs/pdf/eb_ser/belida/2022-1/belida-2022-1-ch1.pdf (I
> have some comments on his paper on my blog:
> https://dlc.hypotheses.org/2641).
>
> Best,
>
> Martin
> On 02.07.25 12:49, Adam James Ross Tallman via Lingtyp wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Trying to make a bibliography for my typology class. I was wondering what
> people thought the most important works (say top 5-10) in generative
> typology are in the past 20 years. In my mind this is mostly dominated by
> Mark Baker's work, but I feel this impression might be out of date. I'd be
> very interested in PhD theses (or work derived from these) in particular.
>
> best regards,
>
> Adam
>
>
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