TY - BOOK ID - 1630886 TI - Possible and probable languages: a generative perspective on linguistic typology PY - 2005 SN - 0199274347 9780199274345 0199274339 9780199274338 9786611198411 0191534404 1435622820 1281198412 0191706477 PB - Oxford Oxford University Press DB - UniCat KW - Grammar KW - 800.8 KW - Taalklassen. Taalsoorten. Soorten talen. Talen: typologie KW - Functionalism (Linguistics) KW - Generative grammar. KW - Grammar, Comparative and general. KW - Typology (Linguistics) KW - 800.8 Taalklassen. Taalsoorten. Soorten talen. Talen: typologie KW - Functionalism (Linguistics). KW - Typology (Linguistics). KW - Generative grammar KW - Grammar, Comparative and general KW - Functional analysis (Linguistics) KW - Functional grammar KW - Functional linguistics KW - Functional-structural analysis (Linguistics) KW - Grammar, Functional KW - Grammatical functions KW - Linguistics KW - Structural linguistics KW - Language and languages KW - Linguistic typology KW - Linguistic universals KW - Grammar, Generative KW - Grammar, Transformational KW - Grammar, Transformational generative KW - Transformational generative grammar KW - Transformational grammar KW - Psycholinguistics KW - Comparative grammar KW - Grammar, Philosophical KW - Grammar, Universal KW - Philosophical grammar KW - Philology KW - Typology KW - Classification KW - Derivation KW - Grammar, Comparative UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:1630886 AB - In this important and pioneering book Frederick Newmeyer seeks to explain the variety of languages. He combines the leading ideas of the functionalist and formalist approaches to linguistic typology, advocating principles of Universal Grammar to explain why some language types are impossible, and functional principles to explain why some grammatical features are more common than others. ER -