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The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Typology

by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald , R. M. W. Dixon
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781107464889
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press
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  • Pages: 1028
  • Original Price: GBP 55.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 1602 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Linguistics / General

Linguistic typology identifies both how languages vary and what they all have in common. This Handbook provides a state-of-the art survey of the aims and methods of linguistic typology, and the conclusions we can draw from them. Part I covers phonological typology, morphological typology, sociolinguistic typology and the relationships between typology, historical linguistics and grammaticalization. It also addresses typological features of mixed languages, creole languages, sign languages and secret languages. Part II features contributions on the typology of morphological processes, noun categorization devices, negation, frustrative modality, logophoricity, switch reference and motion events. Finally, Part III focuses on typological profiles of the mainland South Asia area, Australia, Quechuan and Aymaran, Eskimo-Aleut, Iroquoian, the Kampa subgroup of Arawak, Omotic, Semitic, Dravidian, the Oceanic subgroup of Austronesian and the Awuyu-Ndumut family (in West Papua). Uniting the expertise of a stellar selection of scholars, this Handbook highlights linguistic typology as a major discipline within the field of linguistics.

Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y.: - Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald is Australian Laureate Fellow, Distinguished Professor, and Director of the Language and Culture Research Centre, James Cook University, North Queensland. She is an expert on languages and cultures of Amazonia and the Sepik region of Papua New Guinea, in addition to linguistic typology, general linguistics and several other areas.

Aikhenvald, Alexandra: - Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald is Australian Laureate Fellow, Distinguished Professor, and Director of the Language and Culture Research Centre James Cook University, Australia. She is an expert on languages and cultures of Amazonia and the Sepik region of Papua New Guinea, in addition to linguistic typology, general linguistics and several other areas. Recipient of Humboldt Researcgh Award. Major publications include A grammar of Tariana (Cambridge University Press, 2003), and, with Oxford University Press, Classifiers: a typology of noun categorization devices (2000), Language contact in Amazonia (2002), Evidentiality (2004), The Manambu language from East Sepik, Papua New Guinea, (2008), Imperatives and commands (2010), Languages of the Amazon (2012), The Art of Grammar (2015) and How gender shapes the world (forthcoming 2016); the editor of The Oxford Handbook of Evidentiality (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).

Dixon, R. M. W.: - R. M. W. Dixon is Professor and Deputy Director of the Language and Culture Research Centre at James Cook University, North Queensland and a Fellow of the British Academy. He has published grammars of a number of Australian languages.

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