THEMES IN TYPOLOGY: Basic Reading List Frans Plank, 1989-99, 2005, 2008 [to be updated] [email protected] Fachbereich Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Konstanz Contents INTRODUCING TYPOLOGY HISTORY OF TYPOLOGY THE WORLD OF LANGUAGES SAMPLING THE LANGUAGES OF THE WORLD AREAL LINGUISTICS EUROPE AS A LINGUISTIC AREA ONE LANGUAGE DESCRIBED (GUESS WHICH) PARTS OF SPEECH (a) General (b) Noun-verb distinction (c) Many, few, no adjectives (d) Numerals (e) Articles (and other definiteness marking) (f) Pronouns, personal and other (g) Auxiliaries and verbs INFLECTION: CASE (a) Case and other relational coding (b) The so-called genitive case in English (c) Pronominal case marking in English INFLECTION: NUMBER INFLECTION: GENDER/CLASS WHERE’S INFLECTION? (a) Nominal vs. verbal inflection (b) Head vs. dependent marking (c) Nominal vs. pronominal inflection INFLECTIONAL SYSTEMS MORPHOLOGICAL TYPOLOGY AGREEMENT Plank, TYPOLOGY Reading List 2 CONSTITUENT ORDER (a) Word-level (b) Phrase-, clause-, sentence-level GRAMMATICAL RELATIONS (a) General (b) Alignment (c) Voice (d) Direct – Inverse (e) Objects (f) Incorporation and verbal classification NEGATION INTERROGATION CAUSATION COMPLEX PREDICATES, SERIAL VERBS COORDINATION AND SUBORDINATION SWITCH REFERENCE COMPARISON PHONOLOGY (a) Phoneme systems (b) Tone (c) Syllable and morpheme structure (d) Allomorphy (e) Metrical structure (g) Accent (f) Intonation, isochrony (h) Harmony and disharmony, umlaut ... [to be continued] INTERNET SITES OF SPECIAL TYPOLOGICAL INTEREST FORMAL BASICS AND TOOLS (GROUPS OF) TYPOLOGISTS SPECIALIST JOURNALS THE WORLD OF LANGUAGES ONLINE TYPOLOGICAL DATABASES Plank, TYPOLOGY Reading List 3 INTRODUCING TYPOLOGY Comrie, Bernard (1989). Language Universals and Linguistic Typology: Syntax and Morphology, 2nd edn. Oxford: Blackwell. Cristofaro, Sonia & Paolo Ramat (eds.) (1999). Introduzione alla tipologia linguistica. Roma: Carocci. Croft, William (1990). Typology and Universals. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Finck, Franz N. (1910). Die Haupttypen des Sprachbaus. Leipzig: Teubner. Givón, Talmy (1984/91). Syntax. A Functional-Typological Introduction, 2 vols.. Amsterdam: Benjamins. Greenberg, Joseph H. (1974). Language Typology: A Historical and Analytic Overview. The Hague: Mouton de Gruyter. Greenberg, Joseph H., et al. (eds.) (1978). Universals of Human Language, 4 vols.. Stanford: Stanford University Press. Hagège, Claude (1982). La structure des langues. (Que sais-je?, 2006). Paris: Presses Universitaires de France. Hammond, Michael T., Edith A. Moravcsik, & Jessica R. Wirth (1988). Language typology and linguistic explanation. In Michael T. Hammond, Edith A. Moravcsik, & Jessica R. Wirth (eds.), Studies in Syntactic Typology, 1-22. Amsterdam: Benjamins. Haspelmath, Martin, Ekkehard König, Wulf Oestereicher, & Wolfgang Raible (eds.) (2001/02). Sprachtypologie und sprachliche Universalienforschung. 2 vols. Berlin: De Gruyter. [only relevant in parts] Mallinson, Graham & Barry J. Blake (1981). Language Typology: Cross-linguistic Studies in Syntax. Amsterdam: North-Holland. Misteli, Franz (1893). Charakteristik der hauptsächlichsten Typen des Sprachbaues. Neubearbeitung des Werkes von Prof. H. Steinthal (1861). Berlin: Dümmler. Moravcsik, Edith A. (1979). Typology in linguistics. Acta Linguistica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 29: 315-337. Nichols, Johanna (1992). Linguistic Diversity in Space and Time. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Payne, Thomas E. (1997). Describing Morphosyntax: A Guide for Field Linguists. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Plank, Frans (ed.) (1986). Typology. (=Folia Linguistica 20; 1/2.) The Hague: Mouton de Gruyter. Shibatani, Masayoshi & Theodora Bynon (eds.) (1995). Approaches to Language Typology. Oxford: Clarendon. [Review: Edith A. Moravcsik (1997), Linguistic Typology 1: 103- 115.] Plank, TYPOLOGY Reading List 4 Shopen, Timothy (ed.) (1985). Language Typology and Syntactic Description, 3 vols.. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Skalicka, Vladimir (1979). Typologische Studien. Braunschweig: Vieweg. Slobin, Dan I. (1997). The universal, the typological, and the particular in acquisition. In Dan I. Slobin (ed.), The Crosslinguistic Study of Language Acquisition, vol. 5: Expanding the Contexts, 1-39. Mahwah, N.J.: Erlbaum. Song, Jae Sung (2000). Linguistic Typology: Morphology and Syntax. Harlow: Pearson Education. Uspenskij, Boris A. (1965). Strukturnaja tipologija jazykov. Moskva: Nauka. Whaley, Lindsay J. (1997). Introduction to Typology: The Unity and Diversity of Language. Newbury Park: Sage. Plank, TYPOLOGY Reading List 5 HISTORY OF TYPOLOGY Brettschneider, Gunter (1980). Sprachtypologie und linguistische Universalienforschung. Studium Linguistik 8/9: 1-31. Greenberg, Jospeh H. (1974). Language Typology: A Historical and Analytic Overview. The Hague: Mouton de Gruyter. Horne, Kibbey M. (1966). Language Typology: 19th and 20th Century Views. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press. Morpurgo Davies, Anna (1997). History of Linguistics, volume 4: Nineteenth Century Linguistics. London: Longman. Plank, Frans (1990). Greenlandic in comparison: Marcus Wöldike’s "Meletema" (1746). Historiographia Linguistica 17: 309-338. Plank, Frans (1991). Hypology, typology: The Gabelentz Puzzle. Folia Linguistica 25: 421- 458. Plank, Frans (1992). Adam Smith: Grammatical economist. In Peter Jones & Andrew S. Skinner (eds.), Adam Smith Reviewed, 21-55. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Plank, Frans (1994). Aus der Geschichte der Abhängigkeiten: Wilhelm von Humboldt zu Mehrheitsbezeichnung und Einverleibungssystem. In Klaus Zimmermann, Jürgen Trabant, & Kurt Mueller-Vollmer (eds.), Wilhelm von Humboldt und die amerikanischen Sprachen, 229-255. (Humboldt-Studien.) Paderborn: Schöningh. Plank, Frans (1998). The co-variation of phonology with morphology and syntax: A hopeful history. Linguistic Typology 2: 195-230. Plank, Frans (1999). Typology by the end of the 18th century. In Sylvain Auroux et al., History of the Language Sciences: An International Handbook on the Evolution of the Study of Language, 1399-1414. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Plank, TYPOLOGY Reading List 6 THE WORLD OF LANGUAGES Campbell, George L. (2000). Compendium of the World’s Languages. 2 vols., 2nd edn. London: Routledge. Comrie, Bernard (ed.) (1990). The World’s Major Languages. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Comrie, Bernard, Stephen Matthews, & Maria S. Polinsky (eds.) (1996). The Atlas of Languages: The Origin and Development of Languages throughout the World. New York: Facts on File. Dalby, Andrew (1999). Dictionary of Languages: The Definitive Guide to More Than 400 Languages. New York: Columbia University Press. Daniels, Peter T. & William Bright (eds.) (1995). The World’s Writing Systems. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Garry, J. & Carl Rubino (eds.) (2001). Facts about the World’s Languages: An Encyclopedia of the World’s Major Languages Past and Present. New York: H. W. Wilson/New England Publishing Associates. Grimes, Barbara F. (ed.) (1996). Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 13th edn.. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics. [http://www.sil.org/ethnologue/ethnologue.html] Klose, Albrecht (2001). Sprachen der Welt: Ein weltweiter Index der Sprachfamilien, Einzelsprachen und Dialekte, mit Angabe der Synonyma und fremdsprachigen Äquivalente. 2nd edn. München: Saur. Ladefoged, Peter & Ian Maddieson (1995). The Sounds of the World’s Languages. Oxford: Blackwell. Lyovin, Anatole V. (1996). An Introduction to the Languages of the World. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Meillet, Antoine & Marcel Cohen (1952). Les langues du monde, 2 vols. Paris: CNRS, Champion. Moseley, Christopher & R.E. Asher (eds.) (1994). Atlas of the World’s Languages. London: Routledge. Ruhlen, Merritt (1987). A Guide to the World’s Languages, vol. 1: Classification. Stanford: Stanford University Press. Voegelin, Charles F. & Florence M. Voegelin (1977). Classification and Index of the World’s Languages. New York: Elsevier. Woodward, Roger D. (ed.) (2002). The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World’s Ancient Languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Plank, TYPOLOGY Reading List 7 SAMPLING THE LANGUAGES OF THE WORLD Bell, Alan (1978). Language samples. In Joseph H. Greenberg et al. (eds.), Universals of Human Language, vol. 1, 123-156. Stanford: Stanford University Press. Dryer, Matthew S. (1989). Large linguistic areas and language sampling. Studies in Language 13: 257-292. Nichols, Johanna (1992). Linguistic Diversity in Space and Time. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Otterbein, Keith F. (1976). Sampling and samples in cross-cultural studies. Behavior Science Research 11: 107-121. Perkins, Revere D. (1989). Statistical techniques for determining language sample size. Studies in Language 13: 293-315. Perkins, Revere D. (1992). Deixis, Grammar, and Culture. Amsterdam: Benjamins. [esp. ch. 7] Rijkhoff, Jan, Dik Bakker, Kees Hengeveld, & Peter Kahrel (1993). A method of language sampling. Studies in Language 17: 169-203. Rijkhoff, Jan & Dik Bakker (1998). Language sampling. Linguistic Typology 2: 262-314. Plank, TYPOLOGY Reading List 8 AREAL LINGUISTICS Austerlitz, Robert (1980). Typology and universals on a Eurasian east-west continuum. In Gunter Brettschneider & Christian Lehmann (eds.), Wege zur Universalienforschung: Sprachwissenschaftliche Beiträge zum 60. Geburtstag von Hansjakob Seiler, 235-244. Tübingen: Narr. Bhat, Darbhe N.S. (1973). Retroflexion: An areal feature. Working Papers on Language Universals 13: 27-68. Blake, Barry J. (1990). Redefining