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Languages and Prehistory of Central Siberia
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Languages and Prehistory of Central SiberiaLanguages and Prehistory of Central Siberia

The twelve articles in this volume describe Yeniseic, Samoyedic and Siberian Turkic languages as a linguistic complex of great interest to typologists, grammarians, diachronic and synchronic linguists, as well as cultural anthropologists.
 
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Tags: synchronic, linguists, diachronic, grammarians, typologists, Languages, Central, Siberia, Prehistory
Creoles, Their Substrates, and Language Typology
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Creoles, their Substrates, and Language TypologyCreoles, their Substrates, and Language Typology

Since creole languages draw their properties from both their substrate and superstrate sources, the typological classification of creoles has long been a major issue for creolists, typologists, and linguists in general.
 
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Tags: their, typologists, linguists, creolists, issue, Creoles, Typology, Language, Substrates
Dialectology Meets Typology: Dialect Grammar from a Cross-Linguistic Perspective
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Dialectology Meets Typology: Dialect Grammar from a Cross-Linguistic PerspectiveIn what ways can dialectologists and language typologists profit from each others' work when looking across the fence? This is the guiding question of this volume, which involves follow-up questions such as: How can dialectologists profit from adopting the large body of insights in and hypotheses on language variation and language universals familiar from work in language typology, notably functional typology? Vice versa, what can typologists learn from the study of non-standard varieties?
 
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Tags: language, typology, profit, dialectologists, typologists
From Polysemy to Semantic Change: Towards a typology of lexical semantic associations (Studies in Language Companion Series)
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From Polysemy to Semantic Change: Towards a typology of lexical semantic associations (Studies in Language Companion Series)This book is the result of a joint project on lexical and semantic typology which gathered together field linguists, semanticists, cognitivists, typologists, and an NLP specialist. These cross-linguistic studies concern semantic shifts at large, both synchronic and diachronic: the outcome of polysemy, heterosemy, or semantic change at the lexical level. The first part presents a comprehensive state of the art of a domain typologists have long been reluctant to deal with. Part two focuses on theoretical and methodological approaches: cognition, construction grammar, graph theory, semantic maps, and data bases. These studies deal with universals and variation across languages ...
 
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Tags: semantic, studies, lexical, languages, These, typologists, typology