Linguistic Categories, Language Description and Linguistic Typology.

• Superior document: Typological Studies in Language Series ; v.132
• Author: Alfieri, Luca.
• TeilnehmendeR: Arcodia, Giorgio Francesco.; Ramat, Paolo.
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : : John Benjamins Publishing Company,, 2021.; Ã2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Typological Studies in Language Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (432 pages)

Table of Contents

Cover -- Title page -- Copyright -- Table of contents -- 1 Linguistic categories, language description and linguistic typology - An overview -- 1 Introduction: The rationale for this book -- 2 Language-specific vs. universal categories, description vs. comparison - A long history made short -- 3 The lingtyp debate and its background -- 4 Recent insights: The Linguistic Typology debate -- 5 Concluding remarks -- 6 The contributions to this volume -- References -- 2 Towards standardization of morphosyntactic terminology for general linguistics -- 1 Terminological consistency and standardization -- 2 Comparative concepts, language-particular categories, and natural kinds -- 3 Examples of possible standard definitions of well-known terms -- 4 Principles for standard morphosyntactic terms -- 5 Shared-core definitions of comparative concepts -- 6 Stereotypes and prototypes -- 7 Standard comparative terms and language-particular description -- 8 Concluding remarks -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 3 Universal underpinnings of language-specific categories -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The (non-) universality of categories -- 3 Why do languages categorize their UoLs and how? -- 4 Beyond grammatical categories: The categories of interaction -- 5 Conclusion: How to do typology -- References -- 4 Typology of functional domains -- 1 Aims of typology -- 2 Approaches to the study of functional categories -- 3 Problems with conceptual frameworks (comparative concepts) -- 4 Current approaches to the discovery of functions -- 5 Theoretical foundations for a non-aprioristic description of functions -- 6 Discovery of the function of a linguistic form -- 7 The basic questions in the cross-linguistic study of functions -- 8 Proposed object of typology of functions -- 9 Point of view -- 10 Locative predication -- 11 Benefactive, malefactive, and the indirect object.

12 Advantages of comparing functions encoded in the grammatical systems -- 13 What the typology of functional functions will look like -- Abbreviations -- References -- 5 Theories of language, language comparison, and grammatical description -- A. Introduction and background -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Background -- B. Determining a comparative concept: The definition of "serial verb construction" -- 3 Background: Definition types -- 4 Basic type of the definition -- 5 Subtype of the definition -- 6 Background: Definition form -- 7 The definition of "serial verb construction": Logical form (1) -- 8 The definition of "serial verb construction": Logical form (2) -- 9 The concept of serial verb construction -- 10 Applying the concept term -- C. 'Comparative concepts' vs. 'descriptive categories': Revising the conception -- 11 Comparative concepts (1): Basics - Revisions One to Four -- 12 Comparative concepts (2): Intension-based concept types - Revisions Five to Seven -- 13 Comparative concepts (3): 'Universal applicability' - Revision Eight -- 14 Descriptive categories (1): The nature of descriptive categories - Revision Nine -- 15 Descriptive categories (2): How not to define category terms -- 16 Descriptive categories (3): The proper treatment of category terms - Revision Ten -- 17 Relating comparative concepts and descriptive categories. Concept types -- 18 The problem of type-token relations -- 19 Theories of language, language comparison, and grammatical description -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 6 Comparative concepts are not a different kind of thing -- 1 Introduction -- 2 A critical close reading of Haspelmath (2010a) -- 3 An alternative: Monotonic, multiple inheritance -- 4 Conclusion and outlook -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 7 Essentials of the unityp research project -- 0. Preliminary remarks -- 1 Introduction.

2 Some essential concepts of UNITYP -- 3 UNITYP in progress: New aspects and notions -- Categories and concepts: In memoriam Hansjakob Seiler -- References -- 8 The non-universality of linguistic categories -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Theoretical and methodological preliminaries -- 3 Functional characteristics of pluractional markers -- 4 Formal properties of pluractional markers -- 5 Diachronic sources of pluractional markers -- 6 The grammatical status of pluractional markers in cross-linguistic perspective -- 7 Conclusion -- Abbreviations (cf. Leipzig Glossing Rules) -- References -- 9 Parts of speech, comparative concepts and Indo-European linguistics -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The comparative concept debate in the field of the PoS -- 3 The PoS in Latin and in Sanskrit: State of the art -- 4 A relatively new PoS theory -- 5 The Latin PoS system -- 6 The RV Sanskrit PoS system -- 7 Discussion and conclusion -- List of abbreviations -- References -- 10 Verbal vs. nominal reflexive constructions: A categorical opposition? -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The debate on "reflexives" -- 3 The morphology of reflexives -- 4 Verbal vs. nominal reflexives -- 5 Conclusions -- Abbreviations -- References -- 11 The category 'pronoun' in East and Southeast Asian languages, with a focus on Japanese -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Person as a grammatical category -- 3 Personal pronouns -- 4 Pronouns in East and Southeast Asian languages -- 5 Ellipsis -- 6 Towards an emancipatory pragmatics -- 7 Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- References -- Subject index -- Language index -- Author index.