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.