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Haspelmath, Martin – Language Sciences, 1998
An analysis of Standard Average European, a European linguistic area, looks at 11 of its features (definite, indefinite articles, have-perfect, participial passive, antiaccusative prominence, nominative experiencers, dative external possessors, negation/negative pronouns, particle comparatives, A-and-B conjunction, relative clauses, verb fronting…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Foreign Countries, Language Classification

Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y.; Dixon, R. M. W. – Language Sciences, 1998
A discussion of areal linguistics and Amazonian languages looks at common properties of Amazonian languages, the occurrence, origins, and development of evidentiality systems in a number of those languages, and patterns of grammatical diffusion. Concludes that communities in the Amazonian linguistics area share common beliefs, mental attitudes,…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Foreign Countries, Language Classification, Language Patterns

van der Auwera, Johan – Language Sciences, 1998
A study took features identified by specialists as typical for the Balkan and Meso-American linguistic areas and counted them for each relevant language. The resulting ranking of languages reflects the extent to which each language exemplifies the areal type, which was then plotted on isopleth maps. Both rankings and maps are useful in…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Foreign Countries, Language Classification, Language Patterns

Kuteva, Tania – Language Sciences, 1998
Argues that with regard to an important part of verbal morphosyntax (Tense-Aspect-Mood or TAM), it is possible to speak of a Standard Average European. Focus is on origins and evolution of TAM-markers, or TAM-auxiliation, suggesting that particular verb structures provide conceptual sources for auxiliation, and that it has an areal configuration…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Foreign Countries, Grammar

Trask, R. L. – Language Sciences, 1998
The typological position of the Basque language is examined from an explicitly historical perspective, exploring the degree to which it has undergone typological assimilation into its Indo-European neighbors during the last 2,000 years. Phonology, morphology, syntax, and lexicon are considered. (MSE)
Descriptors: Basque, Contrastive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Foreign Countries
Matras, Yaron, Ed.; Bakker, Peter, Ed.; Kyuchukov, Hristo, Ed. – 1997
Papers on typology and dialects of the Romani language include: "Athematic Morphology in Romani: The Borrowing of a Borrowing Pattern" (Peter Bakker); "Towards a Morphology-Based Typology of Romani" (Viktor Elsik); "The Typology of Case Relations and Case Layer Distribution in Romani" (Yaron Matras); "Object…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, Foreign Countries, Grammar
Ho, Dah-an, Ed.; Tseng, Chiu-yu, Ed. – 1994
This publication of proceedings, most in English and some in Chinese, of a conference on Chinese languages and linguistics include the following papers: "On Rule Effect and Dialect Classification" (Chin-Chuan Cheng); "Cross-Linguistic Typological Variation, Grammatical Relations, and the Chinese Language" (Bernard Comrie);…
Descriptors: Affixes, Chinese, Contrastive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics