Should descriptive grammars be “typologically informed”, and what does this mean?

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15 avril 2017

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Martin Haspelmath, « Should descriptive grammars be “typologically informed”, and what does this mean? », Diversity Linguistics Comment, ID : 10.58079/nstp

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A recent issue of the journal “Linguistic Typology” contains a number of articles on the usefulness of typology, among others one by Nikolaus Himmelmann on the usefulness of typology for language documentation (2016). Himmelmann bluntly criticizes the theoretical stance of separating description from comparison: “Recently, it has become fashionable to emphasize the difference between language description and typological comparison, with authors such as ... Haspelmath (2010) actually conceivi...

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