Published since January 1, 1997

Linguistic Typology

ISSN: 1613-415X

Editor-in-chief: Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm

Founded by: Frans Plank

Impact Factor: 1.684

About this journal

Objective

Linguistic Typology provides a forum for all work of relevance to the study of language typology and cross-linguistic variation. It welcomes work taking a typological perspective on all domains of the structure of spoken and signed languages, including historical change, language processing, and sociolinguistics. Diverse descriptive and theoretical frameworks are welcomed so long as they have a clear bearing on the study of cross-linguistic variation. We welcome cross-disciplinary approaches to the study of linguistic diversity, as well as work dealing with just one or a few languages, as long as it is typologically informed and typologically and theoretically relevant, and contains new empirical evidence.

Linguistic Typology is published by De Gruyter Mouton for the Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT). For membership and subscription details, contact the Secretary: Dmitry Idiatov

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• Research articles
• Target articles with peer commentary (If you have an idea for one, contact the Editor)
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• Language profiles, family portraits and areal surveys
• Review articles (reviewing two or more books, or a whole subject area)
• Book reviews (all book reviews are commissioned by Review Editors)
• Methodological contributions (e.g., reports on and reviews of toolkits, databases, software, collection of texts and corpora, archival collections resulting from fieldwork etc.) These should include a discussion of how/why the material is of typological relevance.
• Squibs (very short and often humorous pieces on a very specific topic intended to encourage debate)
• Contact the Editor if you have an idea that is not represented here

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broad focus on the study of language typology and cross-linguistic variation
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freely available Editor’s choice articles

History

Linguistic Typology has been published by Mouton de Gruyter / De Gruyter Mouton for the Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT) since 1997. Frans Plank (Konstanz / Oxford) was the Founding Editor of the journal, and, with volume 22, Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm took over in 2018.

Other publications in the field

Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT]
Linguistics
Linguistics Vanguard
Mouton Handbooks of Indo-European Typology [MHIET]
STUF – Language Typology and Universals

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Volume 26 Issue 1

May 2022

Publicly Available May 9, 2022

Frontmatter

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Articles

May 26, 2021

Towards a typology of predicative demonstratives

Don Killian

Page range: 1-41

Abstract

Although there has been growing interest in the study of demonstratives, a number of demonstrative categories remain largely unexplored. This article addresses one gap, presenting a preliminary typological overview of predicative demonstratives, a type of demonstrative used primarily in non-verbal predication constructions. The morphosyntax of predicative demonstratives is first briefly examined, followed by a typological characterization based primarily on semantic and morphosyntactic grounds. Predicative demonstratives focus on the immediately surrounding spatial, temporal, or textual environment of the speech act, showing restrictions on occurring in negated clauses or questions. In terms of lexical categorization, predicative demonstratives most commonly find themselves in a small closed word class of non-verbal predicators. Four types of predicative demonstratives are proposed here: Presentatives, identifiers, localizers, and the rare copular demonstratives.

Open Access June 9, 2021

Appositive possession in Ainu and around the Pacific

Anna Bugaeva, Johanna Nichols, Balthasar Bickel

Page range: 43-88

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Abstract

Some languages around the Pacific have multiple possessive classes of alienable constructions using appositive nouns or classifiers. This pattern differs from the most common kind of alienable/inalienable distinction, which involves marking, usually affixal, on the possessum, and has only one class of alienables. The Japanese language isolate Ainu has possessive marking that is reminiscent of the Circum-Pacific pattern. It is distinctive, however, in that the possessor is coded not as a dependent in an NP but as an argument in a finite clause, and the appositive word is a verb. This paper gives a first comprehensive, typologically grounded description of Ainu possession and reconstructs the pattern that must have been standard when Ainu was still the daily language of a large speech community; Ainu then had multiple alienable class constructions. We report a cross-linguistic survey expanding previous coverage of the appositive type and show how Ainu fits in. We split alienable/inalienable into two different phenomena: argument structure (with types based on possessibility: optionally possessible, obligatorily possessed, and non-possessible) and valence (alienable, inalienable classes). Valence-changing operations are derived alienability and derived inalienability. Our survey classifies the possessive systems of languages in these terms.

September 27, 2021

The general noun-modifying clause construction beyond Eurasia

Tong WU

Page range: 89-127

Abstract

I aim to provide a typological investigation of the General Noun-modifying Clause Construction (NMCC) in languages other than those of Eurasia. I show that the five properties proposed by Matsumoto et al. as potentially correlating with the General NMCC are rather areal features which are falsified by the data of languages from Africa and Europe. The semantic interpretability condition and the syntactic licensing condition of the General Noun-modifying Clause Construction need reconsidering. Semantically, I argue that the interpretability of the General NMCC depends both on the semantics of the head noun and that of the modifying clause because they show close interaction with each other. Syntactically, I propose three general syntactic properties of the languages with the General NMCC, i.e. (1) no relative pronouns or relative pronouns in competition with a general clause marker, (2) complex subordinate locutions composed of the general clause marker(s) (and a head noun), and (3) unified verb forms in subordination.

March 30, 2021

Corpus-based typology: applications, challenges and some solutions

Natalia Levshina

Page range: 129-160

Abstract

Over the last few years, the number of corpora that can be used for language comparison has dramatically increased. The corpora are so diverse in their structure, size and annotation style, that a novice might not know where to start. The present paper charts this new and changing territory, providing a few landmarks, warning signs and safe paths. Although no corpus at present can replace the traditional type of typological data based on language description in reference grammars, corpora can help with diverse tasks, being particularly well suited for investigating probabilistic and gradient properties of languages and for discovering and interpreting cross-linguistic generalizations based on processing and communicative mechanisms. At the same time, the use of corpora for typological purposes has not only advantages and opportunities, but also numerous challenges. This paper also contains an empirical case study addressing two pertinent problems: the role of text types in language comparison and the problem of the word as a comparative concept.

Open Access August 23, 2021

A typology of consonant-inventory gaps

Dmitry Nikolaev

Page range: 161-186

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Abstract

This article provides a new precise algorithmic definition of the notion “phonological-inventory gap”. On the basis of this definition, I propose a method for identifying gaps, provide descriptive data on several types of consonant-inventory gaps in the world’s languages, and investigate the relationships between gaps and inventory size, processes of sound change, and phonological segment borrowing.

Book Review

January 10, 2022

Zariquiey, Roberto, Masayoshi Shibatani and David W. Fleck: Nominalization in languages of the Americas

Katharina Haude

Page range: 187-198

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5-year Impact Factor	1.225
Cite Score	1.5
European Reference Index for the Humanities
Impact Factor	1.684
Journal Citation Indicator	1.32
SCImago Journal Rank	0.638
Source Normalized Impact per Paper	2.130

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Editorial

Editor
Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm
Stockholm University, Sweden
e-mail: Linguistic_Typology@degruyter.com

Founding Editor
Frans Plank
Somerville College, University of Oxford, UK

Review Editors

Alena Witzlack-Makarevich (General Review Editor)
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Jorge Emilio Rosés Labrada (Grammar Review Editor)
University of Alberta, Canada

Assistant Editor
Angela Terrill
University of the South Pacific, Fiji
Punctilious Marvelid Ltd.
e-mail: punctilious.editing@gmail.com

Associate Editors
Dan Dediu (University of Barcelona, Spain)
Patience Epps (University of Texas, Austin, USA)
Jeff Mielke (North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA)
Marianne Mithun (University of California at Santa Barbara, USA)
Brigitte Pakendorf (Dynamique du Langage, Centre national de la recherche scientifique & Université Lumière Lyon 2, France)
Masha Polinsky (University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA)
Mark van de Velde (LLACAN, Centre national de la recherche scientifique & Inalco, France)
Jean-Christophe Verstraete (University of Leuven, Belgium)
Fernando Zúñiga (Universität Bern, Switzerland)

(Deutsch)

Online ISSN: 1613-415X
Print ISSN: 1430-0532
Type: Journal
Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
First published: January 1, 1997
Publication Frequency: 3 Issues per Year