Language Typology

Proceedings of electronic conference
May 15-25, 1999

• TOWARDS A THEORY OF SYNTACTIC CATEGORIES
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  David Gil
  Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

• A TYPOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE PRO-DROP PARAMETER
  [Abstract HTML] [PDF 60.6 Kb]
  Kimberly Geeslin
  Stanford, USA

• Multiple periphrastic perfectives: another case of "bounder perfectivization"
  [Abstract]   [Abstract Russian]  [PDF 230Kb English]  [PDF 270Kb Russian]
  Timur Maisak
  Moscow State University, Russia

• CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIVE DEVIANCE
  [Abstract]     [HTML 132Kb] [PDF 72Kb]
  Peter John Hassall
  International Pacific College, New Zealand,
  Siva Ganesh
  Massey University, New Zealand

• THE TYPOLOGY OF EXPLETIVE THERE
  [Abstract PDF 12.3Kb]     [PDF 71Kb]
  William Earl Griffin
  The University of Texas at Austin, USA

• TYPOLOGY-DIACHRONY INTERFACE (ON PERSIAN LANGUAGE)
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  Marika Butskhrikidze
  Holland Institute of Generative Linguistics, The Netherlands

• THE IDEA OF A CLASSIFIER SYSTEM: THEORETICAL PROBLEMS IN THE ANALYSIS OF JAPANESE NOUN SPECIFICATION
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  Chris Beckwith
  Indiana University, USA

• Possible generalization of Comrie's hypothesis about the syntactic position of the causee
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  Valery Solovyev
  Kazan State University, Russia