语言类型学与普遍语法特征（英文）

　　《语言类型学与普遍语法特征》主要介绍：Comparison of the grammars of human lagnuages reveals systematic patterns of variation. Research in typology and universals attempts to uncover those patterns. To formulate the universal constraints on language that define those patterns， and to seek explanations for the universals. In this volume， the first of its kind， william Croft provides the reader with a comprehensive introduction to the method and theory used in typology-universals research. Together with an overview of basic grammatical differences between languages. He discusses theoretical issues ranging from the most fundamental-on what basis can the arammars of diverse languages be compared？-to the most absttact-what is the role of fuctional and historical explanation of language universals？ -and gives extensive illustration from the world's languages. Several case studies also provide extended examples of the methodologies applied to specific problems. As well as explicating basic concepts established in the last thirty years. Current areas of typological research are thoroughly covered （including some discussion of phonological typology）. The author demonstrates how complex patterns of cross-linguistic variation. Such as hierarchies and prototypes. Are built on the basic patterns of implicational universals and markedness. He also draws together contemporary research on cross-linguistic patterns of the form-meaning relation and on universals of language change， and shows how a new approach to limguistic explanation， the "functional-typological" or "dynamic" paradigm， has evolved in the last decade. This textbook will appeal to scholars and students alike in linguistics and anthropology.

暂缺《语言类型学与普遍语法特征（英文）》作者简介

Preface by Halliday
王宗炎序
导读
Preface and Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
1 Introduction
1.1 Definitions and scope of typology
1.2 Cross-linguistic comparison
1.3 The problem of cross-linguistic comparability
1.4 Non-typological factors and the sampling problem
1.5 Data sources
2 Typological classification
2.1 Introduction
2.1 The concept ora linguistic type strategy
2.3 Morphological typology
3 Implicational universals
3.1 Restrictions on possible language types
3.2 Unrestricted and implicationai universals
3.3 Deeper explanations for word-order universals
4 Markedness in typology
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Markedness and implicationai universals
4.3 Criteria for markedness
4.3.1 Structure
4.3.2 Behavior
4-3.2.1 Inflectional behavior
4.3.2.2 Distributional behavior
4.3.3 Frequency
4.3.4 Neutral value
4.4 Conclusion
5 Grammatical hierarchies
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Hierarchies, implicational universals and markedness
5.3 The principal grammatical hierarchies
5.3.1 Number
5.3.2 The grammatical relations hierarchy and NP accessibility
5.3.3 Animaey, definiteness and hierarchy of features
5.3.4 Bondedness the modifier hierarchy
5.4 Phonological hierarchies
5.5 Conclusion
6 Prototypes and the interaction of typological patterns
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Clusters and typological evidence ]dr prototypes
6.2.1 Animacy and definiteness
6.2.2 Transitivity
6.3 Markedness reversals and complementary prototypes
6.3.1 Some phonological examples
6.3.2 Case, animacy and verb type
6.3.3 Nouns, verbs and adjectives
6.3.4 Other markedness reversals
6.4 More complex interactions
6.4.1 Place of articulation
6.4.2 Person
6.5 Typology and syntactic analysis
External motivation and the typology of form-function
relations
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Markedness and economic motivation
7.2.1 Frequency
7.2.2 Other external explanations for markedness patterns
7.3 iconicity
7.3.1 Isomorphismand polysemy
7.3.2 Iconic motivation
7.3.2.1 Conceptual distance and constituent structure
7.3.2.2 Syntactic categories, objects and events
7.3.2.3 Other universals of linguistic structure
7.4 Competing motivations
7.5 Typological conspiracies and communicative motivation
7.6 Conclusion
8 Diachronic typology
8.1 Introduction
8.2 The dynamicization of synchronic typology
8.3 From states to processes
8.4 Directionality of change
8.5 Grammaticalization
8.5.1 Correlated grammaticalization processes
8.5.1.1 Phonological
8.5.1.2 Morphosvntactic
8.5.1.3 Functional
8.5.2 some issues in grammaticalization
8.6 Conclusion
9 Linguistic explanation in the dynamic paradigm
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Description, explanation and generalization
9.3 lnternal generalizations: language-internal and
cross-linguistic
9.4 External generalizations: language and biology
9.5 Diachronic explanations and synchronic grammar
Notes
References
Map of languages cited
Author index
Language index
Subject index
Croft: Typology and Universals: Errata
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