Book Review

Document Type : Criticism

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Shahid Beheshti University

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Linguistic Typology is one of the most rapidly expanding fields in linguistics that concerns to describe and explain similarities and differences among languages of the world. It also aims to find cross-linguistic generalizations and language universals and classify languages according to their structural and functional features. To date, many studies have been done on linguistic typology and many books have been written. One of the most recent books in this field is “Introducing Language Typology” by Edith Moravcsik (2013). The purpose of the present review is to introduce and evaluate the main strong and weak points of the book.

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-  Bakker, Dik (2011). “Language Sampling”. In J. J. Song (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic typology (pp. 101-127). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
-  Corrigan, Robert, Edith A. Moravcsik, Hamid Ouali & Kathleen Wheatley (2009). Formulaic Language (2 vols). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
-  Croft, William (2003). Typology and Universals. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
-  Daniel, Michael. (2011). “Linguistic typology and the study of language”. In J. J. Song (ed.), The Oxford handbook of linguistic typology (pp. 43-68). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
-  Dixon, R.M.W. (2010). I am a linguist. Leiden: Brill.
-  Evans, Nicholas (2011). “Semantic Typology”. In J. J. Song (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic typology (pp. 504-533). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
-  MacWhinney, Brian, Andrej Malchukov, and Edith A. Moravcsik (2014). Competing Motivations in Grammar and Usage. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
-  Moravcsik, A. Edith (2006). An Introduction to Syntactic Theory. London and New York: Continuum.
-  Moravcsik, A. Edith (2006). An Introduction to Syntax: Fundamentals of Syntactic Analysis. London and New York: Continuum.
-  Moravcsik, A. Edith (2011). “Explaining Language Universals”. In J. J. Song (ed.), The Oxford handbook of linguistic typology (pp. 69-89). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
-  Shields, Kenneth (2011). “Linguistic Typology and Historical Linguistics”. In J. J. Song (ed.), The Oxford handbook of linguistic typology (pp. 551-567). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
-  Shopen, Timothy (ed.) (2007). Language typology and syntactic description, Vol. 1: Clause structure, (2nd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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