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SITE MAP
IE Grammar
Conference on Greenberg's Work
Typology
Index.
Lehmann Fs. Titles
Matthew Dryer's Structural Atlas
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TYPOLOGY
Concerns with what is universal or typologically recurring across the world's languages
are as old as the question of genetic relations among languages.
In the second half of the twentieth century work intensified, building on Edward Sapir's
classification of languages based on morphological
language types (inflectional [older IE], analytic, and agglutinating). Joseph Greenberg's
empirical studies of implicational universals laid the basis for studies of word order
typology and category variation and related studies of human language, while Russian work on contentive typology
has called attention to semantic factors affecting language type. See now too B. Bauer's
Typology Index.
Some of these approaches are reflected in the second volume
of the Lehmann Festschrift.
Details of issues and data currently pursued by scholars in many places can also be found on
Matthew Dryer's Structural Atlas pages.
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