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Edited by Sonia Cristofaro and Fernando Zúñiga
[Typological Studies in Language 121] 2018
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Synchronic vs. diachronic approaches to typological hierarchies

Published online: 26 July 2018
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Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Typological hierarchies: Some traditional explanations and open issues
  • 3.Synchronic distributional patterns and their diachronic sources
  • 4.Multiple diachronic origins
  • 5.Accounting for exceptions
  • 6.Concluding remarks: Diachronic vs. synchronic explanations of typological hierarchies
  • Notes
  • References
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