TY - BOOK ID - 77938430 TI - Language typology 1987 : systematic balance in language : papers from the Linguistic Typology Symposium, Berkeley, 1-3 December 1987 AU - Lehmann, Winfred P. AU - Linguistic Typology Symposium PY - 1990 VL - 67 SN - 1283313642 9786613313645 9027278318 9789027278319 9027235643 9789027235640 9781283313643 6613313645 PB - Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., DB - UniCat KW - Typology (Linguistics) KW - Historical linguistics KW - Congresses KW - Linguistics KW - Congresses. KW - Typology (Linguistics) - Congresses KW - Historical linguistics - Congresses. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77938430 AB - These papers from the 1987 Typology Symposium a follow-up to the 1985 meeting in Moscow deal with the relevance of typology for historical linguistics. Its application in understanding phonological and grammatical change is examined for a variety of languages. Its relevance for application of the comparative method and the method of internal reconstruction is noted with reference to the glottalic theory and problems in other language families. Among the several approaches, alignment typology is especially examined, with languages defined as accusative, ergative or stative-active an approach to ER -