Here, Comrie (linguistics, U. of Southern Cal.) is particularly concerned with syntactico-semantic universals, devoting chapters to word order, case marking, re

本书区别于一般导论性教科书的特点是并非面面俱到,而是对某些有趣的论题作较为深入的探讨,因此可读性比较强,并从中�

A thorough rewriting to reflect advances in typology and universals in the past decade.

This handbook provides a comprehensive and thorough survey of our current insights into the diversity and unity found across the 6000 languages of this planet.

Language typology is concerned with the construction of theoretical frameworks capable of delimiting the range of human languages and of capturing constraints o