Language Typology and Language Universals 2.Teilband
Haspelmath, Martin / Raible, Wolfgang / Oesterreicher, Wulf / König, Ekkehard
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. The 125 articles include inter alia chapters on the patterns and limits of variation manifested by analogous structures, constructions and linguistic devices across languages (e.g. word order, tense and aspect, inflection, color terms and syllable structure). Other chapters cover the hi...