432 Pages
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Routledge
426 Pages
by
Routledge
432 Pages
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Routledge
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There are generally estimated to be between 4,000 and 6,000 languages in the world. This number alone gives an idea of the immense diversity of languages: at the same time, there also has to be an underlying unity to human languages. Linguistic Typology is the study of the structural similarities between languages, regardless of their history, to establish a classification of languages. It... Read more
1. Introducing linguistic typology2. Basic word order3. Case marking4. Relative clauses5. Causatives6. The application of linguistic typology7. European approaches to linguistics typology
Biography
Jae Jung Song
'This book is a sound critical introduciton to linguistic typology'
'.. this book will prove to be valuable reading.'
Journal of Linguisitcs, Dunstan Brown, University of Surrey
