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• Association for Linguistic Typology
  ...)''' is an organization of linguists with a special interest in [[language typology]]. It was founded in 1993. [http://www.linguistic-typology.org/ ALT Website]
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• Polysynthetic language
  ...cesses such as [[noun incorporation]]. Hence a polysynthetic language is a language in which a single [[word]] can encode a [[meaning]] which would require a f *[[Association for Linguistic Typology]]
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• List of linguistics journals
  *[[Functions of Language]] *[[Language (journal)]]
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• Semantic typology
  ...udy of meaning ([[semantics]]) using the cross-linguistic methodology of [[typology]]. :::*''"Semantic typology is the comparative study of linguistic categorization—research into how l
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• Vladimir P. Nedjalkov
  ...gy. He was one of the main representatives of the Leningrad/St.Petersburg Typology Group. ...1987, 2008), general typology of converbs (1990, 1995), as well as general typology of reciprocal constructions (2007).
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• Language family
  A '''language family''' is a [[family]] of languages. *[[Language Typology]]
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• Nonce borrowing
  ...anguage of the utterance, which has not become an established part of this language. Nonce borrowings are more or less equivalent to instances of single-word [ [[Category:Typology]]
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• Agglutinating language
  '''Agglutinating language''' is a language which has a morphological system in which words as a rule are polymorphemic ...]]s, and [[polysynthetic language]]s. One basic assumption underlying this typology is that agglutination is the primary type of [[word formation]], and that t
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• Basic Linguistic Theory
  ...Dixon]], refers to the set of descriptive notions that is commonly used in language description. ...nto use for the fundamental theoretical concepts that underlie all work in language description and change, and the postulation of general properties of human
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• Intersentential codeswitching
  ...first language has been completed and the next sentence starts with a new language (e.g. Appel & Muysken 1987:118). *Appel, R. & Muysken, Pieter. 1987. ''Language Contact and bilingualism.'' London: Edward Arnold.
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• Local
  Andrews, Avery. 1985. The major functions of the noun phrase. In ''Language Typology and syntactic description,'' vol. 1. ''Clause structure,'' ed. by Timothy S
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• Relexification
  ...bstrate language]]s, while their words derive from the European [[lexifier language]]s. ...s been largely replaced...by a more recent vocabulary derived from another language, while the original grammatical structure is preserved... This process of r
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• Exclusive
  ...Studies of the Inclusive-Exclusive Distinction.'' (Typological Studies in Language, 63.) Amsterdam: Benjamins.
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• Isolating languages
  ...language is defined as one in which all words are invariable. '''Isolating language''' is a traditional term used for languages in which there is very little ( Chinese is often cited as a well-known example of the isolating type of language.
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• Inclusive
  ...Studies of the Inclusive-Exclusive Distinction.'' (Typological Studies in Language, 63.) Amsterdam: Benjamins.
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• Clusivity
  ...Studies of the Inclusive-Exclusive Distinction.'' (Typological Studies in Language, 63.) Amsterdam: Benjamins.
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• Information packaging
  ...1985. Information packaging in the clause. In T. Shopen, eds., ''Language Typology and Syntactic Description'', 282-364. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
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• Typological consistency
  In the standard work on typological consistency two basic types of language are distinguished, those where (direct) objects precede the verb (OV), and [[Greenberg's Universals]] of word order typology (1963) have revealed a striking positive correlation between the order of h
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• Fusional morphology
  * Bloomfield 1933. ''Language,'' Holt, New York. [[Category:Typology]]
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• Debitiv
  ...Siemund, Speech Act Distinctions in Grammar. In: T. Shopen (Hg.), Language Typology and Syntactic Description. Cambridge 2005.
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• Coordinator
  ...elmath, Martin]]. 2007. Coordination. In: Shopen, Timothy (ed.) ''Language typology and syntactic description, vol. II.'' Cambridge: Cambridge university Press
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• Quantity-(in)sensitivity
  ...The weight-contrast is language-specific.) In a quantity-insensitive (=QI) language feet are built ignoring differences in syllable structure, i.e. all types o
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• Speech-act participant
  Certain subsystems of a language’s grammar are sensitive to speech-act participants. (They do not distingu *Andrews, Avery. 1985. The major functions of the noun phrase. In ''Language Typology and syntactic description,'' vol. 1. ''Clause structure,'' ed. by Timothy S
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• Coordinand
  ...elmath, Martin]]. 2007. Coordination. In: Shopen, Timothy (ed.) ''Language typology and syntactic description, vol. II.'' Cambridge: Cambridge university Press
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• Fossilisierung
  *[[Croft, William]]. 2000: Explaining language change: an evolutionary approach. London: Pearson Education. *Croft, William. 2003: Typology and universals. 2. Auflage. Cambridge [u.a.]: Cambridge University Press.
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• List of current conference series
  [[Association of Linguistic Typology Meeting]] (ALT Meeting) [[Evolution of Language]] (EVOLANG)
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• Adhortativ
  ...Siemund, Speech Act Distinctions in Grammar. In: T. Shopen (Hg.), Language Typology and Syntactic Description. Cambridge 2007.
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• Person
  ...ls, Johanna. 2007. Inflectional morphology. In: Shopen, T. [ed.] "Language typology and syntactic description". Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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• Optativ
  ...Siemund, Speech Act Distinctions in Grammar. In: T. Shopen (Hg.), Language Typology and Syntactic Description. Cambridge 2005.
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• Topic
  Many [[language]]s, like [[English language|English]], resort to different means in order to signal a new topic, such a ...er languages, like [[Japanese]], that work directly on a [[topic-prominent language|topic-comment]] frame. A new topic is always introduced in a specific way,
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• Converb
  ...he English equivalent of deepricastie (cf. Nedjalkov 1990), but in English-language Slavic linguistic, converb is never used to render deepricastie. Also, some ''Linguistic Typology'' 2. 381-397.
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• Paradigmatisierung
  *[[Croft, William]]. 2000: Explaining language change: an evolutionary approach. London: Pearson Education. *Croft, William. 2003: Typology and universals. 2. Auflage. Cambridge [u.a.]: Cambridge University Press.
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• Coordination
  ...elmath, Martin]]. 2007. Coordination. In: Shopen, Timothy (ed.) ''Language typology and syntactic description, vol. II.'' Cambridge: Cambridge university Press
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• Dative alternation
  ...3. Dative alternation in Brazilian Portuguese: typology and constraints. ''Language Design'' 5:67-78. http://elies.rediris.es/Language_Design/LD5/abreu.pdf
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• Dislocation
  ...König, Wulf Oesterreicher & Wolfgang Raible, eds., L''anguage Typology and Language Universals: An International Handbook.'' (Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommu ...ual Structure, Discourse and Language''. Stanford: Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications. 463-479.
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• Andreas Blank
  *(1999): “Why do new meanings occur? A cognitive typology of the motivations for lexical semantic change”, in: A. Blank/P. Koch, ed ...man/D. D. Clarke, eds., Polysemy. Flexible Patterns of Meaning in Mind and Language, Amsterdam/Philadelphia, 267-293.
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• Exklamativsatz
  ...2005. Speech Act Distinctions in Grammar. In: T. Shopen (Hg.), ''Language Typology and Syntactic Description.'' Cambridge. .... Portner. 2003. Exclamative Clauses: At the Syntax-Semantics Interface. ''Language'' 79.1, 39–81.
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• Jiří Krámský
  ...to the present. Let us mention at least his school grammar of the English language (in two editions, 1979 and 1989), university textbooks concerning English o ...chenko and R. Jakobson. In his paper A quantitative typology of languages (Language and Speech, Vol. 2, Part2, April-June 1959, 72-85) the quantitative aspect
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• Expressive
  ...2005. Speech Act Distinctions in Grammar. In: T. Shopen (Hg.), ''Language Typology and Syntactic Description.'' Cambridge.
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• Imperativ
  .../ Imperative-Hortative Systems. In: M. Dryer et al. (Hg.), World Atlas of Language Structures. Oxford 2003, 286-298. *V. S. Khrakovsku (Hg.), Typology of Imperative Constructions. LINCOM Studies in Theoretical Linguistics 04.
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• Pro-Drop-Parameter
  ...eslin, A Typological Investigation of the Pro-Drop-Parameter. In: Language Typology. Proceedings of Electronic Conference May 15–25, 1999. Web Journal of FCC
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• Code-switching
  ...called the [[matrix language]], while the minor language is the [[embedded language]]. ...s when a bilingual introduces a completely unassimilated word from another language into his speech."'' (Haugen 1956:40)
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• Affixes
  ...s usually have a more restricted phonology, segments used for affixes in a language are only a subpart of the phoneme system. Affixes are usually shorter than In [[Kusunda]] (a language isolate of Nepal), at least some verbal suffixes may appear in random order
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• Satzmodus
  ...Siemund, Speech Act Distinctions in Grammar. In: T. Shopen (Hg.), Language Typology and Syntactic Description. Cambridge, UK 2005. .... Zwicky, Speech Act Distinctions in Syntax. In: T. Shopen (Hg.), Language Typology and Syntactic Description. Cambridge, UK 1985, 155-196.
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• Jan Czekanowski
  ...araim people, although professing Judaism and using Hebrew as a liturgical language, was of Turkish origin. This helped the Karaims escape the tragic destiny o After calculating the correlation coefficients for all the language pairs representing the most important Indo-European groups, the author cons
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• Manner predication
  *Dimmendaal, Gerrit Jan. 1983. The Turkana Language (Publication in the African Languages and Linguistics, 2). Dodrecht: Foris. *Loeb-Diehl, Flora. 2005. ''The Typology of Manner Expressions''. Diss. Ponsen & Looijen.
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• UNITYP - Kölner Universalienprojekt
  ...n des Kölner Universalienprojektes), ''LW'' (Linguistic Workshop I-III), ''Language Universals Series'', und zahllose weitere Arbeiten zum Projekt. Im Unterschied zu anderen Forschungsgruppen, wie dem [[Stanford Project on Language Universals]] von Greenberg oder dem französischen Projekt RIVALC, ist ein
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• Habitual aspect
  * Crystal, David. 1987. ''The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language.'' Cambridge, England: Cambridge University. 422. ISBN 0-521-26438-3 ...ann, Reinhard Rudolf Karl, and Stork, Francis Colin. 1972. ''Dictionary of Language and Linguistics.'' London: Applied Science. 21. ISBN 0-853-34534-1
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• Morph (de)
  ...nberg, J.H. 1960. A Quantitative Approach to the Morphological Typology of Language. ''International Journal of American Linguistics 26'': 178-194. *Harris, Z.S. 1955. From Phoneme to Morpheme. ''Language 31'': 190-222. Auch in: Harris, Z.S., ''Papers in Structural and Transforma
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• Antipassiv
  * Payne, Thomas. 2006. ''Voice and Valence''. In: Payne, T. Exploring Language Structure: a Students’ Guide. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. ...aspelmath, M., Dryer, M.S., Gil, D., Comrie, B. (Eds.). The World Atlas of Language Structures. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 438-441.
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• Kreolsprache
  ...sowie ihre grammatischen Merkmale bietet der ''Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures'' ([https://apics-online.info APiCS]) (vgl. Haspelmath u.a. 2013 ...on stellt auf Grundlage des Hawaiianischen die Theorie eines angeborenen ''Language Bioprogram'' auf, mit dem die Kinder der Sklaven das ihnen dargebotene Pidg
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• Modalität
  ...n Grammar and Discourse''. Amsterdam: Benjamins. (= Typological Studies in Language 32). ...ne, M. 2004. Mood and Modality: Out of Theory and Into the Fray. ''Natural Language Engineering'' 19(1), 57–89.
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• Klassische Sprachtypologie
  Coseriu, E.: Adam Smith and the Beginnings of Language Typology. In: Historiographia Linguistica 10 [1983]. S. 1-12. Haggblade, E.: Contributors to the Beginnings of Language Typology. In: Historiographia Linguistica 10 [1983]. S. 13-24.
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• Future tense
  ...and Aspect in the Languages of Europe''. Empirical Approaches to Language Typology: Eurotyp 20-6. Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter Verlag. * Quirk, Randolph et al. 1985. ''A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language''. London: Longman Group Limited.
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• Gustav Herdan
  ...f his work is the development and the testing of mathematically formulated language laws (“statistical laws”). His conception of such laws is reflected in ...uage of the Nazis (Herdan 1960a: 263ff). He presents in his works numerous language laws, among others the Zipf and Zipf-Mandelbrot, the Poisson, and the logno
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• Antikausativ
  ...Bernard & Polinsky, Maria (eds.): Causatives and transitivity. (Studies in Language Companion Series, 23.) Amsterdam: Benjamins. (S. 87-120.)
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• Genus (de)
  ...e Eindrücke von der Vielfalt des Genus' erhalten werden. Im World Atlas of Language Structures<ref name="corc"/> werden diese Erkenntnisse vertieft. Corbett we *Aikhenvald, A. Y. 2000. Classifiers: a Typology of Noun Categorization Devices. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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• Swedish Phonology
  Regarding the pronunciation of those vowels, the language consists of 18 phonemes which are differentiated by their length. There are There are nine long vowel phonemes in the Swedish language.
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• Boris Isaakovič Jarcho
  ...iteration]]s, [[metaphor]]s, [[metonymy|metonymies]]), a quantitative text typology, including a quantitative style-comparison of literary texts as well as poe ...understood as a first qualitative interpretation of the specific shape of language and speech distributions.
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• Reziprok
  *Payne, Thomas. 2006. ''Exploring language structure: a student’s guide.'' Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 23 *Evans, Nick. 2005. Reciprocal constructions: toward a structural typology. In: König, E. & Gast, V. (eds.) ''Reciprocity and Reflexivity: Crosslingu
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• Tsez
  |Language =Tsez ...age|Georgian]]) is a [[Northeast_Caucasian_languages|Northeast Caucasian]] language with about 7000 speakers spoken by the Tsez, a muslimic people in the moun
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• Kaili (en)
  ...i Tengah province were (1979) native speakers of a Kaili language. Object language of this article is the main dialect Ledo, which is spoken in the district ( Kaili is a typical Malayo-Polynesian language with a morphology that has isolating as well as a few agglutinative feature
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• Kausativ
  *Dixon, Robert M. W. 2000. ''A typology of causatives: form, syntax meaning.'' In: Dixon & Aikhenvald (eds.). Chang *Payne, Thomas E., 2006. Exploring language structure: a students guide. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. S.258-2
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• Kaili
  ...onesian: AnUpdate. In: WOUK, FAY / ROSS, MALCOLM (Hrsgg.): The history and typology of western Austronesian voice systems. Canberra: Department of Linguistics, * HIMMELMANN, NIKOLAUS P. (in Vorb.): Language endangerment scenarios in northern Central Sulawesi. In: Oceanic LInguistic
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