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Universals of Language Today

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  • © 2009

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Editors:
  1. Sergio Scalise

    1. Università di Bologna, 40124 Bologna (BO), Italy

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  2. Elisabetta Magni

    1. Università di Bologna, 40124 Bologna (BO), Italy

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  3. Antonietta Bisetto

    1. Università di Bologna, 40124 Bologna (BO), Italy

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  • Includes a fresh and up-to-date survey of the present state of research on Universals of Language in an international context, with original contributions from leading specialists in the field
  • Features first-hand accounts of substantive findings and theoretical observations in different subareas of linguistics
  • Huge number of linguistic phenomena and data from different languages analyzed and discussed in detail
  • Essential reading for scientists, researchers and postgraduate students in linguistics

Part of the book series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory (SNLT, volume 76)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XXVII
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  2. How Universal are Linguistic Categories?

    • Paolo Ramat
    Pages 1-11

  3. An Empirical Test of the Agglutination Hypothesis

    • Martin Haspelmath
    Pages 13-29

  4. What Linguistic Universals Can Be True Of

    • Aditi Lahiri, Frans Plank
    Pages 31-58

  5. Universals of Prosodic Structure

    • Irene Vogel
    Pages 59-82

  6. Lexical Integrity As A Formal Universal: A Constructionist View

    • Geert Booij
    Pages 83-100

  7. Searching for Universals in Compounding

    • Emiliano Guevara, Sergio Scalise
    Pages 101-128

  8. Universals and Features

    • Greville G. Corbett
    Pages 129-144

  9. Methods for Finding Language Universals in Syntax

    • William Croft
    Pages 145-164

  10. The Fundamental Left-Right Asymmetry of Natural Languages

    • Guglielmo Cinque
    Pages 165-184

  11. The Branching Direction Theory of Word Order Correlations Revisited

    • Matthew S. Dryer
    Pages 185-207

  12. Universals and Semantics

    • Denis Delfitto
    Pages 209-224

  13. The Evolution of Latin Word (Dis)order

    • Elisabetta Magni
    Pages 225-251

  14. Typological Universals and Second Language Acquisition

    • Anna Giacalone Ramat
    Pages 253-272

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 273-281
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About this book

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 - tersects 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. • A fresh and up-to-date survey of the present state of research on Universals of Language in an international context, with original contributions from leading specialists in the eld. • First-hand accounts of substantive ndings and theoretical observations in diff- ent subareas of linguistics. • Huge number of linguistic phenomena and data from diffferent languages a- lyzed and discussed in detail.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Università di Bologna, 40124 Bologna (BO), Italy

    Sergio Scalise, Elisabetta Magni, Antonietta Bisetto

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