Typology in the 21st century: Major current developments
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- 20 January 2007
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH in Linguistic Typology
- Vol. 11 (1) , 239-251
- https://doi.org/10.1515/lingty.2007.018
Abstract
1. Typology as a discipline In the past century, typology was mostly used as an alternative method of pursuing one of the same goals as generative grammar: to determine the limits of possible human languages and, thereby, to contribute to a universal theory of grammar. The paradigm result was the absolute universal law that would rule out as linguistically impossible what would seem logically imaginable, e.g., a language with a gender distinction exclusively in the 1st person singular.Keywords
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