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oapen-20.500.12657-252372021-11-10T08:09:09Z Explanation in typology Schmidtke-Bode, Karsten Levshina, Natalia Michaelis, Susanne Maria Seržant, Ilja Linguistics bic Book Industry Communication::C Language::CF linguistics::CFF Historical & comparative linguistics This volume provides an up-to-date discussion of a foundational issue that has recently taken centre stage in linguistic typology and which is relevant to the language sciences more generally: To what extent can cross-linguistic generalizations, i.e. statistical universals of linguistic structure, be explained by the diachronic sources of these structures? Everyone agrees that typological distributions are the result of complex histories, as “languages evolve into the variation states to which synchronic universals pertain” (Hawkins 1988). However, an increasingly popular line of argumentation holds that many, perhaps most, typological regularities are long-term reflections of their diachronic sources, rather than being ‘target-driven’ by overarching functional-adaptive motivations. 2019-04-18 23:55 2020-03-10 03:00:38 2020-04-01T10:31:34Z 2020-04-01T10:31:34Z 2019-04-10 book 1004857 OCN: 1100489522 9783961101474 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25237 eng application/pdf n/a 1004857.pdf Language Science Press 10.5281/zenodo.2583788 104800 10.5281/zenodo.2583788 0bad921f-3055-43b9-a9f1-ea5b2d949173 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9783961101474 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Berlin 104800 Language Science Press 2018 - 2020 Knowledge Unlatched open access
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This volume provides an up-to-date discussion of a foundational issue that has recently taken centre stage in linguistic typology and which is relevant to the language sciences more generally: To what extent can cross-linguistic generalizations, i.e. statistical universals of linguistic structure, be explained by the diachronic sources of these structures? Everyone agrees that typological distributions are the result of complex histories, as “languages evolve into the variation states to which synchronic universals pertain” (Hawkins 1988). However, an increasingly popular line of argumentation holds that many, perhaps most, typological regularities are long-term reflections of their diachronic sources, rather than being ‘target-driven’ by overarching functional-adaptive motivations.
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