Linguistic Diversity and Language Theories

Abstract

1. Introduction (by Frajzyngier, Zygmunt) 2. What are we typologists doing? (by Lazard, Gilbert) 3. The canonical approach in typology* (by Corbett, Greville G.) 4. What is an empirical theory of linguistic meaning a theory of? (by Raccah, Pierre-Yves) 5. Language processes, theory and description of language change, and building on the past: Lessons from Songhay (by Nicolai, Robert) 6. On the part played by human conscious choice in language structure and language evolution (by Hagege, Claude) 7. The challenge of polygrammaticalization for linguistic theory: Fractal grammar and transcategorical functioning (by Robert, Stephane) 8. On discourse frequency, grammar, and grammaticalization (by Pustet, Regina) 9. On the assumption of the sentence as the basic unit of syntactic structure (by Mithun, Marianne) 10. Adpositions as a non-universal category (by DeLancey, Scott) 11. Understanding antigemination (by Blevins, Juliette) 12. What it means to be rare: The variability of person marking (by Cysouw, Michael) 13. The principle of Functional Transparency in language structure and in language evolution (by Frajzyngier, Zygmunt) 14. The importance of discourse analysis for linguistic theory: A Mandarin Chinese Illustration (by Tao, Liang) 15. Compounding theories and linguistic diversity (by Soegaard, Anders) 16. Inalienability and possessum individuation* (by Lichtenberk, Frantisek) 17. Resultativeness in English: A sign-oriented approach (by Gorlach, Marina) 18. Encoding speaker perspective: Evidentials (by Haan, Ferdinand de) 19. Distinguishing between referential and grammatical function in morphological typology (by Vajda, Edward J.) 20. Index