In:Linguistic Diversity and Language Theories
Edited by Zygmunt Frajzyngier, Adam Hodges and David S. Rood
[Studies in Language Companion Series 72] 2005
► pp. v–vi
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Published online: 28 February 2005
https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.72.toc
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Table of contents
What are we typologists doing?
The canonical approach in typology*
What is an empirical theory of linguistic meaning a theory of?
Language processes, theory and description of language change, and building on the past: Lessons from Songhay
On the part played by human conscious choice in language structure and language evolution
The challenge of polygrammaticalization for linguistic theory: Fractal grammar and transcategorical functioning
On discourse frequency, grammar, and grammaticalization
On the assumption of the sentence as the basic unit of syntactic structure
Adpositions as a non-universal category
Understanding antigemination
What it means to be rare: The variability of person marking
The principle of Functional Transparency in language structure and in language evolution
The importance of discourse analysis for linguistic theory: A Mandarin Chinese Illustration
Compounding theories and linguistic diversity
Inalienability and possessum individuation*
Resultativeness in English: A sign-oriented approach
Encoding speaker perspective: Evidentials
Distinguishing between referential and grammatical function in morphological typology
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