Linguistic categories, language description and linguistic typology / edited by Luca Alfieri, Giorgio Francesco Arcodia, Paolo Ramat.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Alfieri, Luca, editor.

Arcodia, Giorgio Francesco, 1978- editor.

Ramat, Paolo, editor.

Series:

Typological studies in language ; 0167-7373 v. 132.

Typological studies in language, 0167-7373 ; volume 132

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Grammatical categories.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Categorization (Linguistics).

Typology (Linguistics).

Physical Description:

vi, 424 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2021]

Summary:

"Few issues in the history of the language sciences have been an object of as much discussion and controversy as linguistic categories. The eleven articles included in this volume tackle the issue of categories from a wide range of perspectives and with different foci, in the context of the current debate on the nature and methodology of the research on comparative concepts - particularly, the relation between the categories needed to describe languages and those needed to compare languages. While the first six papers deal with general theoretical questions, the following five confront specific issues in the domain of language analysis arising from the application of categories. The volume will appeal to a very broad readership: advanced students and scholars in any field of linguistics, but also specialists in the philosophy of language, and scholars interested in the cognitive aspects of language from different subfields (neurolinguistics, cognitive sciences, psycholinguistics, anthropology)"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 Chapter 1. Linguistic categories, language description and linguistic typology - An overview p. 1 / Luca Alfieri; Giorgio Francesco Arcodia; Paolo Ramat

2 Towards standardization of morphosyntactic terminology for general linguistics p. 35 / Martin Haspelmath

3 Universal underpinnings of language-specific categories p. 59 / Martina Wiltschko

4 Typology of functional domains p. 101 / Zygmunt Frajzyngier

5 Theories of language, language comparison, and grammatical description p. 137 / Hans-Heinrich Lieb

6 Comparative concepts are not a different kind of thing p. 211 / Tabea Reiner

7 Essentials of the unityp research project p. 249 / Hansjakob Seiler; Yoshiko Ono; Waldfried Premper

8 The non-universality of linguistic categories p. 279 / Simone Mattiola

9 Parts of speech, comparative concepts and Indo-European linguistics p. 313 / Luca Alfieri

10 Verbal vs. nominal reflexive constructions p. 367 / Nicoletta Puddu

11 The category 'pronoun' in East and Southeast Asian languages, with a focus on Japanese p. 389 / Federica Da Milano

12 Subject index p. 411

13 Language index p. 419

14 Author index p. 421.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Other Format:

Online version: Linguistic categories, language description and linguistic typology

ISBN:

9789027208651

9027208654

OCLC:

1233267487