Explanation in typology : Diachronic sources, functional motivations and the nature of the evidence

This volume provides an up-to-date discussion of a foundational issue that has recently taken centre stage in linguistic typology and which is relevant to the language sciences more generally: To what extent can cross-linguistic generalizations, i.e. statistical universals of linguistic structure, b...

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Other Authors: Schmidtke-Bode, Karsten (Editor), Levshina, Natalia (Editor), Michaelis, Susanne Maria (Editor), Seržant, Ilja (Editor)
Format: eBook
Published: Berlin Language Science Press 20190410
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