29.3520, Books: Typological Hierarchies in Synchrony and Diachrony: Cristofaro, Zúñiga (eds.)

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Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2018 16:27:01
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: Typological Hierarchies in Synchrony and Diachrony: Cristofaro, Zúñiga (eds.)

 


Title: Typological Hierarchies in Synchrony and Diachrony 
Series Title: Typological Studies in Language 121  

Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/tsl.121 


Editor: Sonia Cristofaro
Editor: Fernando Zúñiga

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027264459 Pages: 434 Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027264459 Pages: 434 Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027264459 Pages: 434 Price: Europe EURO 99.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027200266 Pages: 434 Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027200266 Pages: 434 Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027200266 Pages: 434 Price: Europe EURO 104.94


Abstract:

Typological hierarchies are widely perceived as one of the most important
results of research on language universals and linguistic diversity.
Explanations for typological hierarchies, however, are usually based on the
synchronic properties of the patterns described by individual hierarchies, not
the actual diachronic processes that give rise to these patterns
cross-linguistically. This book aims to explore in what ways the investigation
of such processes can further our understanding of typological hierarchies. To
this end, diachronic evidence about the origins of several phenomena described
by typological hierarchies is discussed for several languages by a number of
leading scholars in typology, historical linguistics, and language
documentation. This evidence suggests a rethinking of possible explanations
for typological hierarchies, as well as the very notion of typological
universals in general. For this reason, the book will be of interest not only
to the broad typological community, but also historical linguists, cognitive
linguists, and psycholinguists.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Linguistic Theories
                     Typology


Written In: English  (eng)

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