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The Senshu University Project The Development of the Anglo-Saxon Language and Linguistic Universals has as its general aim the investigation of structural characteristics common to the Germanic languages, such as English, German, Norwegian, and Icelandic, all of which are descended from the so-called Proto-Germanic language, and their clarification with regard to linguistic universals provided by the theoretical framework of Generative Grammar. In order to fulfill this aim, the project has to be responsive to theoretical advances in a variety of linguistic domains and approaches, such as language acquisition, pragmatics and corpus linguistics as well as philological and historical contributions on Germanic languages in various stages of their development. The present book seeks to advance these goals in ten chapters exemplifying work on a wide range of Germanic languages and linguistic universals. It is divided into three parts: Part 1. Old English and Germanic languages; Part 2. Generative Grammar; and Part 3. Pragmatics and Corpus Linguistics. Germanic Languages and Linguistic Universals will be of general interest to linguists who seek to understand the nature of the Germanic languages and the relationships obtaining between them.

Anglo-Saxon language (c. 600-1100) --- Germanic languages --- Grammar --- Allemand (langue) --- Anglais (langue) --- Universaux (linguistique) --- Grammaire --- 450-1100 (vieil anglais) --- English language --- Linguistic universals --- Universals (Linguistics) --- Grammar. --- Linguistic universals. --- Universals (Linguistics). --- Grammaire.

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Language description enriches linguistic theory and linguistic theory sharpens language description. Based on evidence from the world's languages, functional-typological linguistics has established a number of thorough generalizations about the nature of linguistic categorizations and their manifestation in natural languages. Empirical studies in these fields of linguistics have contributed to sharpen linguistic theory in several respects. This volume is a collection of 19 contributions from outstanding scholars in the field of functional-typological linguistics that address fundamental issues in the study of language, such as the nature of linguistic categories, the constitution of functional domains, and the form of cross-linguistic continua. Empirical data from individual languages and from typological samples are investigated in order to achieve generalizations about the properties of human grammar(s). Several grammatical phenomena are dealt with including tonal systems, person distinctions, modalities, reciprocity, complex predicates, grammatical relations, word order, clause linkage, and information structure. The structure of the book illustrates the fundamental importance of the analytical distinction between the onomasiological and the semasiological approach to language and language diversity. Both perspectives are integrated in most papers with a dominant focus on either the former or the latter perspective.

Grammar, Comparative and general --- Typology (Linguistics). --- Syntax. --- 801.56 --- 801.56 Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Typology (Linguistics) --- Syntaxe --- Typologie (Linguistique) --- Syntax --- Language and languages --- Linguistic typology --- Linguistics --- Linguistic universals --- Typology --- Classification --- Philology --- Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax --- Functional Typology.

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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 refine their classifications and to question the accepted borderlines between different categories, types, and levels of linguistic description. The scope of the individual contributions to the volume varies from worldwide typological samples to family-internal typology to in-depth studies of single languages. The range of linguistic domains addressed include tonology, morphology, syntax, and lexical classes. Among the phenomena scrutinized are clitics, tones, case, agreement/indexation, localization, pluractionality, desideratives, lability, comitative constructions, raising, verb formation, nominal classification, parts of speech, and predicates of change. More general theoretical and methodological issues addressed include such topics as markedness, grammaticalization, lexicalization, and the integration of linguistic data and description. The book is of interest to typologists and field linguists, as well as to any linguists interested in theoretical issues in different subfields of linguistics. A particular contribution of the volume is to present a synthesis of typological and descriptive approaches to the study of language, and to highlight the fact that broader typological study and the focused investigation of particular languages are interdependent ventures that necessarily inform each other.

Typology (Linguistics) --- Language and languages --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Linguistic typology --- Linguistics --- Linguistic universals --- Typology --- Classification --- Typology (Linguistics). --- Typologie (Linguistique) --- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES --- Langage et langues --- Language and languages. --- Linguistics. --- Typologie (Linguistique). --- General. --- Linguistic Description. --- Typology.

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This book collects the contributions presented at the international congress held at the University of Bologna in January 2007, where leading scholars of different persuasions and interests offered an up-to-date overview of the current status of the research on linguistic universals. The papers that make up the volume deal with both theoretical and empirical issues, and range over various domains, covering not only morphology and syntax, which were the major focus of Greenberg’s seminal work, but also phonology and semantics, as well as diachrony and second language acquisition. Diverse perspectives illustrate and discuss a huge number of phenomena from a wide variety of languages, not only exploring the way research on universals intersects with different subareas of linguistics, but also contributing to the ongoing debate between functional and formal approaches to explaining the universals of language. This stimulating reading for scientists, researchers and postgraduate students in linguistics shows how different, but not irreconcilable, modes of explanation can complement each other, both offering fresh insights into the investigation of unity and diversity in languages, and pointing to exciting areas for future research.

Sociolinguistics --- Linguistics --- syntaxis --- linguïstiek --- 17.13 typological linguistics. --- Linguistic universals --- Linguistic universals. --- Sprachliche Universalien. --- Taaluniversalia. --- Universalia (språkvetenskap) --- Grammar, Comparative and general. --- Phonology. --- Grammar. --- Syntax. --- Phonology and Phonetics. --- Theoretical Linguistics. --- Comparative grammar --- Grammar --- Grammar, Philosophical --- Grammar, Universal --- Language and languages --- Philosophical grammar --- Philology --- Grammar, Comparative --- Linguistics. --- Linguistic science --- Science of language --- Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax --- Syntax --- Grammar, Comparative and general Phonology --- Phonology --- Universaux (linguistique) --- Grammaire comparative et générale --- Syntaxe

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Linguistic models --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Typology (Linguistics) --- Linguistics models --- Linguistics models. --- Comparative grammar --- Grammar --- Grammar, Philosophical --- Grammar, Universal --- Language and languages --- Philosophical grammar --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Linguistic typology --- Linguistic universals --- Models, Linguistic --- Grammar, Comparative --- Typology --- Classification --- Grammar, Comparative and general. --- Linguistic models. --- Typology (Linguistics).