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Title New challenges in typology : transcending the borders and refining the distinctions / edited by Patience Epps, Alexandre Arkhipov.

Publication Info. Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 2009.

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 428 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs, 1861-4302 ; 217
Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 217. 1861-4302
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents Word and phrase structure -- Case, agreement, and localization -- Tense, aspect, and desire -- Clause structure and derivation -- Class struggle : erasing borderlines -- New Challenges in methodology.
Summary The volume brings together seventeen chapters by typologists and typologically oriented field linguists who have recently completed their Ph. D. theses. Through their case studies of selected theoretically relevant issues the authors highlight the mutual importance of language description, on the one hand, and of cross-linguistically informed theory, on the other. Faced with new data from previously unknown languages and even from lesser-studied varieties of European languages, linguists constantly have to deal with the inadequacy of established concepts and typologies, being pushed to further.
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Subject Typology (Linguistics)
Typology (Linguistics)
Language and languages -- Classification.
Language and languages -- Classification.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Classification.
Added Author Epps, Patience, 1973-
Arkhipov, Alexandre.
Other Form: Print version: New challenges in typology. Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 2009 (DLC) 2009281648
ISBN 9783110219067 (electronic book)
3110219069 (electronic book)
9783110219050 (cloth)
3110219050 (cloth)