: Patience Epps, Alexandre Arkhipov
: New Challenges in Typology Transcending the Borders and Refining the Distinctions
: De Gruyter Mouton
: 9783110219067
: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]ISSN
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This volume continues the tradition of presenting the latest findings by typologists and field linguists, relevant to general linguistic theory and research methodology. Cross-linguistic studies based on large samples and in-depth studies of previously undescribed languages highlight new refinements and revisions to our current understanding of established categories and classifications.



Patience Epps, University of Texas at Austin, USA;Alexandre Arkhipov, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia.

Frontmatter1
Contents7
List of Contributors9
Introduction13
Patterns of clitic placement: Evidence from ‘mixed’ clitic systems23
Eton tonology and morphosyntax: A holistic typological approach47
A hierarchical indexation system: The example of Emerillon (Teko)75
Where differential object marking and split plurality intersect: Evidence from Hup97
Syncretisms and neutralizations involving morphological case: Challenges for markedness theory117
Towards a typology of ‘attachment’ markers: Evidence from East Caucasian languages139
Revisiting perfect pathways: Trends in the grammaticalization of periphrastic pasts163
Individual-level meanings in the semantic domain of pluractionality187
The symbiosis of descriptive linguistics and typology: A case study of desideratives211
Comitative as a cross-linguistically valid category235
Towards a typology of labile verbs: Lability vs. derivation259
Towards the typology of raising: A functional approach281
Historical pathways in Northern Paiute verb formation307
Reference and predication in Movima335
All typologies leak: Predicates of change in Lowland Chontal of Oaxaca355
Multidimensional typology and Miraña class markers377
Steps toward a grammar embedded in data401