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28 septembre 2012
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Daniel W. Hieber, « Typology: The study of unity or diversity? », Diversity Linguistics Comment, ID : 10.58079/nss9
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Michael Daniel, in his chapter 'Linguistic typology and the study of language' in The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Typology, sets out to define the field of linguistic typology and situate it within linguistics generally. He opens with this: Linguistic typology compares languages to learn how different languages are, to see how far these differences may go, and to find out what generalizations can be made regarding cross-linguistic variation. (Daniel 2011:44) He also notes that "Most lingui...