The Linguistic Typology of TemplatesThis book represents the first comprehensive examination of templatic constructions - namely, linguistic structures involving unexpected linear stipulation - in both morphology and syntax from a typological perspective. It provides a state-of-the-art overview of the previous literature, develops a new typology for categorizing templatic constructions across grammatical domains, and examines their cross-linguistic variation by employing cutting-edge computational methods. It will be of interest to descriptive linguists seeking to gain a better sense of the diversity of the world's templatic constructions, theoretical linguists developing restrictive models of possible templates, and typologists interested in the attested range of patterns of linear stipulation and the application of new kinds of multivariate methods to cross-linguistic data. The new typological framework is illustrated in detail via a number of case studies involving languages of Africa, Europe, Asia, and the Americas, and numerous other templatic constructions are also considered over the course of the book. |
Contents
constructions page | 49 |
A typological description language for templates | 58 |
case studies | 108 |
comparison | 216 |
Moving forward | 259 |
Appendix Specification of template description language | 272 |
References | 283 |
Author index | 310 |
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Aghem algorithm analysis appear Applicative arch associated Bantu Bantu languages Bickel Chapter characterization Chechen Chichewa Chintang clausal template clause clitic coding comparable comparison connectivity graph consonant constituent context Copy Infinitive database described description language desmeme discussed in Section domain elastic elements encoding example fact feature for specifying feature structures Figure filler flooding algorithm formal foundation given template grammatical graph-based HPSG Hyman Ingush Inkelas involving keystone kind labels left support lexical linear stipulation linguistic marker Meskwaki morphemes morphological morphophonological morphosyntactic mutual information Ñ instance Ndebele Nimboran nodes pairwise connectivity graph phonological position classes potential prefix present Preverbal relevant right support right voussoir Schematization second-position seen semantic Serbo-Croatian set of templatic similarity scores specific Split graph string representation suffix supertype syntactic Table template’s templatic constraints templatic constructions templatic descriptions templatic restrictions tion treated Turkish typological typological description verb phrase verb stem verbal violability vowel