Typology in the 21st century: Major current developments

Bickel, Balthasar

doi:10.1515/lingty.2007.018

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“…Accordingly, typologists are faced with the same puzzle as dialectologists interested in the diffusion of syntactic features. The central dialectological issue of area formation through morphosyntax closely resembles the typological core issue as stated recently in Bickel (2007): "What's where why?" Our concern is to determine if it is possible to base the answer to this question on linguistic facts, or not.…”

Section: Dialect Geography and Areal Typology: Common Questionsmentioning

confidence: 84%

Area formation in morphosyntax

Glaser¹,

Auer²,

Hilpert³

et al. 2013

Space in Language and Linguistics

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Section: Dialect Geography and Areal Typology: Common Questionsmentioning

confidence: 84%

Area formation in morphosyntax

Glaser¹,

Auer²,

Hilpert³

et al. 2013

Space in Language and Linguistics

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“…The data are drawn from language samples that attempt to control for the myriad ways in which languages influence each other in their development, in order to maximize the potential to learn about the range of possible human languages from the set of languages available for analysis. More recent work has shifted from an exploration of language universals to an effort to answer the question that Bickel (2007) frames as "What's where why?". That is, rather than trying to determine the range of possible human languages, Bickel advocates understanding the current range of variation, and then exploring how it came to be through language contact, language change conditioned by functional or other pressures, and the spread through space and time of particular language families.…”

Section: Methodological Reflectionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Grammar Customization

Bender

Drellishak

Fokkens

et al. 2010

Res on Lang and Comput

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This paper presents the LinGO Grammar Matrix grammar customization system, a web-based service which elicits typological descriptions of languages and outputs customized grammar fragments which are ready for sustained development into broad-coverage grammars. We describe the infrastructure we have developed to support grammar customization as well as the current set of linguistic phenomena addressed, reflect on what we have learned about a methodology for this style of multilingual grammar engineering, and evaluate the typological breadth of the system by using it to create grammars for seven languages from seven different language families.

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“…According to such views, language change essentially mediates between domain-general cognitive and physiological faculties and synchronic linguistic structures, as they are distributed within and across languages (Greenberg 1989;Givón 2001;Bybee 2008 andBybee 2010;Blevins 2004). A central insight of this body of work is that synchronic linguistic structures are the result of synchronic constraints on language change, although the notion 'language change' can cover both regular, functionally-motivated types of change, on the one hand, and historical events that can lead to contact-induced change, on the other (Bickel 2007).…”

Section: The Study Of Language Changementioning

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What can historical linguistics and experimental pragmatics offer each other?

Grossman

Noveck

2015

Linguistics Vanguard

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Language change is a central concern for any linguistic theory. For one thing, it is often assumed that language change is explanatory, in that it provides a reasonable answer to what Haspelmath dubbed 'Greenberg's Problem' in 2014: why are languages the way they are? A short version of the Greenbergian answer is: 'Because they became that way through processes of language change.' However, this sort of answer throws into focus the fact that language change is not only a potential explanation for language structures. Rather, it is a set of problems that itself calls for explanation. In fact, this could be called 'Greenberg's Second Question': why do languages change the way they do? In this article, we explore some ways in which the field of experimental pragmatics might shed light on the second question, by providing a set of methods that could investigate existing hypotheses about language change by developing falsifiable predictions to be evaluated in experimental settings. Moreover, these hypotheses can provide new research questions and data for experimentalists to work on, beyond the rather restricted set of questions that experimental pragmatics has confronted to date.

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Typology in the 21st century: Major current developments

Cited by 131 publications

References 42 publications

Area formation in morphosyntax

Area formation in morphosyntax

Grammar Customization

What can historical linguistics and experimental pragmatics offer each other?

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