In what ways can dialectologists and language typologists profit from each others' work when looking across the fence? This is the guiding question of this volu

Revision of author's (doctoral) thesis--LaTrobe University, Austraila, 2008.

Linguistic typology identifies both how languages vary and what they all have in common. This Handbook provides a state-of-the art survey of the aims and method

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