: Matti Miestamo, Bernhard Wälchli
: Matti Miestamo, Bernhard Wälchli
: New Challenges in Typology Broadening the Horizons and Redefining the Foundations
: De Gruyter Mouton
: 9783110198904
: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]ISSN
: 1
: CHF 203.70
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: Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft
: English
: 419
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The book presents up-to-date theoretical and methodological findings by gifted typologists and field linguists. The authors address selected theoretical questions of general linguistic relevance drawing from a wealth of data hitherto unfamiliar to the general linguistic audience. The grammatical phenomena covered range from phonology to the syntax of complex sentences.

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Matti Miestamo, University of Helsinki, Finland;Bernhard Wälchli, U iversity of Konstanz, Germany.
Frontmatter1
Contents9
Introduction13
Strong linearity and the typology of templates23
The Phonology-Morphology Interface from the perspective of infixation47
Typological evidence for the separation between stress and foot structure67
Tone in Bodish languages: Typological and sociolinguistic contributions89
Rembarrnga polysynthesis in cross-linguistic perspective115
Suppletion from a typological perspective139
Lexical classes: A functional approach to “word formation”165
Defining transitivity: Markedness vs. prototypicality191
From the typology of inversion to the typology of alignment211
Building semantic maps: The case of person marking237
Typology and historical linguistics: Some remarks on reflexives in ancient IE languages261
Discreteness and non-discreteness in the design of tense-aspect-mood283
Symmetric and asymmetric encoding of functional domains, with remarks on typological markedness305
The verbness markers of Mosetén from a typological perspective327
Converging patterns of clause linkage in Nagaland351
The many faces of subordination, in Germanic and beyond375
Backmatter397