New Challenges in Typology : Broadening the Horizons and Redefining the Foundations
The sixteen chapters in this volume are written by typologists and typologically oriented field linguists who have completed their Ph. D. theses in the first four years of this millennium. The authors address selected theoretical questions of general linguistic relevance drawing from a wealth of data hitherto unfamiliar to the general linguistic audience. The general aim is to broaden the horizons of typology by revisiting existing typologies with larger language samples, exploring domains not considered in typology before, taking linguistic diversity more seriously, strengthening the connectio
eBook, English, 2008
Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, 2008