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Acknowledgements | p. x |
The Contributors | p. xi |
List of Abbreviations | p. xvii |
Setting the Stage | p. 1 |
Foundations: History, Theory, and Method | |
The (Early) History of Linguistic Typology | p. 9 |
The Pioneers of Linguistic Typology: From Gabelentz to Greenberg | p. 25 |
Linguistic Typology and the Study of Language | p. 43 |
Explaining Language Universals | p. 69 |
The Problem of Cross-linguistic Identification | p. 90 |
Language Sampling | p. 100 |
Theoretical Dimensions of Linguistic Typology | |
Markedness: Iconicity, Economy, and Frequency | p. 131 |
Competing Motivations | p. 148 |
Categories and Prototypes | p. 166 |
Implicational Hierarchies | p. 190 |
Processing Efficiency and Complexity in Typological Patterns | p. 206 |
Language Universals and Linguistic Knowledge | p. 227 |
Empirical Dimensions of Linguistic Typology | |
Word Order Typology | p. 253 |
Word Classes | p. 280 |
Case-Marking Typology | p. 3?3 Beatrice |
Person Marking | p. 322 |
Transitivity Typology | p. 346 |
Voice Typology | p. 368 |
Grammatical Relations Typology | p. 399 |
Typology of Tense, Aspect, and Modality Systems | p. 445 |
Syntactic Typology | p. 465 |
Morphological Typology | p. 487 |
Semantic Typology | p. 504 |
Typology of Phonological Systems | p. 534 |
Linguistic Typology in a Wider Context | |
Linguistic Typology and Historical Linguistics | p. 551 |
Linguistic Typology and Language Contact | p. 568 |
Linguistic Typology and First Language Acquisition | p. 591 |
Linguistic Typology and Second Language Acquisition | p. 618 |
Linguistic Typology and Language Documentation | p. 634 |
Linguistic Typology and Formal Grammar | p. 650 |
References | p. 666 |
Author Index | p. 729 |
Language Index | p. 738 |
Subject Index | p. 744 |
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