PS/HS Language typology

Course Outline

date	topic	reference
08/04/04	Introduction, Course details
15/04/04	The genetic classification of languages	Steinbergs 1996
22/04/04	The typological classification of languages	Comrie 2001
29/04/04	Universals of language	Jackendoff 2002
06/05/04	Universals vs. linguistic relativity	Pinker 1994 vs. Slobin 1997
13/05/04	Word order in the world‘s languages	Comrie 1989
27/05/04	Syntactic typology and parameters	Akhtar 2002
03/06/04	Zero-subject and zero-anaphora	Geeslin 2001
10/06/04	Case marking phenomena	Song 2003
17/06/04	Transitivity, ergativity, animacy	Croft 1990
24/06/04	Tense and aspect cross-linguistically	Bybee/Dahl 1989
01/07/04	Semantics in typology	Higginbotham 1995
08/07/04	Diachronic typology	Greenberg 1994
15/07/04	Wrap-up

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