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LITERATURE PROJECTS Typology: Lecture I Introduction Christian Bentz University of T ¨ ubingen April 28, 2017
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LITERATURE PROJECTS
Typology: Lecture IIntroduction
Christian BentzUniversity of Tübingen
April 28, 2017
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OVERVIEW
LITERATUREIntroductions to TypologyClassicsHandbook SeriesJournal
PROJECTSPhonetics/PhonologyMorphologyLexiconWord OrderOther
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INTRODUCTIONS TO TYPOLOGY
Pereltsvaig, Asya (2012).Languages of the World. AnIntroduction. Cambridge:Cambridge University Press.278 p.
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INTRODUCTIONS TO TYPOLOGY
Moravcsik, Edith A. (2012).Introducing LanguageTypology. Cambridge:Cambridge University Press.308 p.
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INTRODUCTIONS TO TYPOLOGY
Velupillai, Viveka (2012). AnIntroduction to LinguisticTypology. Amsterdam: JohnBenjamins. 517 p.
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CLASSICS
Croft, William (1990, 2003).Typology and Universals.Cambridge: CambridgeUniversity Press. 311 p.
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CLASSICS
Nichols, Johanna (1992).Linguistic Diversity in Spaceand Time. Chicago: TheUniversity of Chicago Press.361 p.
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HANDBOOK SERIES
Hock, Hans Henrich(ed.). The World ofLinguistics. Mouton deGruyter.
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JOURNAL
Plank, Frans (ed.). LinguisticTypology. Mouton de Gruyter.Published since 1997.
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PROJECTS: PHONETICS/PHONOLOGY
I Project 1: If a language does not have fricatives, then it ismore likely to be spoken in mainland Australia thanoutside of it.
I Project 2: Languages using clicks (no para-linguisticusage) have generally bigger sound inventories thanlanguages not using clicks.
I Project 3: If a language has ejectives then it is also likely tohave nominal case marking.
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MORPHOLOGY
I Project 4: Is there a trade-off between morphologicalmarking and usage of tones? Such that languages thatextensively use tonal marking tend to have lessmorphological markers?
I Project 5: Test the hypothesis that number neutrallanguages tend to have numeral classifiers instead (seeKlamer, under review: p.22).
I Project 6: Test Greenberg’s Universal 27: ”If a language isexclusively suffixing, it is postpositional; if it is exclusivelyprefixing, it is prepositional.”
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LEXICON
I Project 7: Do languages with more speakers (biggerpopulation size) have more/less loanwords thanlanguages with fewer speakers?
I Project 8: Is the status of a language (national, widelyused, extinct, etc.) associated with the number of basiccolor terms in a language?
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WORD ORDER
I Project 9: Test the hypothesis that if a language hasadpositions, then it is less likely to use serial verbs. Thisclaim was first made by Bickerton (2016: p.117) withreference to Creole languages.
I Project 10: Test Greenberg’s Universal 41: ”If in a languagethe verb follows both the nominal subject and nominalobject as the dominant order, the language almost alwayshas a case system.”
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OTHER
I Project 11: Are languages of Tasmania most similar toAustralian languages, Austronesian languages or Papuanlanguages? Note that the information on Tasmanianlanguages is sparse, so any kind of information (lexical,phonological, morphological, word order) is acceptablehere.
I Project 12: Give an estimation (or range of estimations) ofhow many languages have been spoken in the world untiltoday (including living languages). Tipp: First try to getestimations for the earliest date of appearance of humanlanguage (this is highly controversial) from the literature,then try to get estimations of the birth death/rate oflanguages.
LiteratureIntroductions to TypologyClassicsHandbook SeriesJournal
ProjectsPhonetics/PhonologyMorphologyLexiconWord OrderOther
