Linguistic Categories, Language Description and Linguistic Typology
Few issues in the history of the language sciences have been an object of as much discussion and controversy as linguistic categories. The eleven articles included in this volume tackle the issue of categories from a wide range of perspectives and with different foci, in the context of the current debate on the nature and methodology of the research on comparative concepts – particularly, the relation between the categories needed to describe languages and those needed to compare languages. While the first six papers deal with general theoretical questions, the following five confront specific issues in the domain of language analysis arising from the application of categories. The volume will appeal to a very broad readership: advanced students and scholars in any field of linguistics, but also specialists in the philosophy of language, and scholars interested in the cognitive aspects of language from different subfields (neurolinguistics, cognitive sciences, psycholinguistics, anthropology).
[Typological Studies in Language, 132] 2021. vi, 424 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Chapter 1. Linguistic categories, language description and linguistic typology – An overviewLuca Alfieri, Giorgio Francesco Arcodia and Paolo Ramat | pp. 1–34
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Chapter 2. Towards standardization of morphosyntactic terminology for general linguisticsMartin Haspelmath | pp. 35–58
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Chapter 3. Universal underpinnings of language-specific categories: A useful heuristic for discovering and comparing categories of grammar and beyondMartina Wiltschko | pp. 59–100
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Chapter 4. Typology of functional domainsZygmunt Frajzyngier | pp. 101–136
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Chapter 5. Theories of language, language comparison, and grammatical description: Correcting HaspelmathHans-Heinrich Lieb | pp. 137–210
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Chapter 6. Comparative concepts are not a different kind of thingTabea Reiner | pp. 211–248
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Chapter 7. Essentials of the unityp research project: Attempt of an overviewHansjakob Seiler (†), Yoshiko Ono and Waldfried Premper | pp. 249–278
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Chapter 8. The non-universality of linguistic categories: Evidence from pluractional constructionsSimone Mattiola | pp. 279–312
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Chapter 9. Parts of speech, comparative concepts and Indo-European linguisticsLuca Alfieri | pp. 313–366
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Chapter 10. Verbal vs. nominal reflexive constructions: A categorial opposition?Nicoletta Puddu | pp. 367–388
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Chapter 11. The category ‘pronoun’ in East and Southeast Asian languages, with a focus on JapaneseFederica Da Milano | pp. 389–410
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Subject index | pp. 411–418
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Language index | pp. 419–420
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Author index | pp. 421–424
Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CFK: Grammar, syntax
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009060: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax