Lehmann Winfred P. (Ed.). Language Typology 1985: Papers from the Linguistic Typology Symposium, Moscow, 9-13 Dec. 1985

John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1986. — 219 p. — (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 47).This volume presents revised versions of papers originally presented at the Colloquium in Linguistic Typology, held in Moscow in 1985. The organizers and participants of the colloquium considered it of great importance to come to terms on primary principles, in order to be able to build on previous research and to determine the place of typology in linguistics. The papers in this volume reflect that goal.Basic Typological units - Viktoria N. Yartseva
Areal Phonetic typology in time: North and East Asia - Robert Austerlitz
Lexico-semantic reconstruction and the linguistic paleontology of culture - Thomas V. Gamkrelidze
Universals specials and typology - V.M. Solntsev
Commensurability of terms - Alice C. Harris
Metalanguage - Alan Timberlake
On the notion of language type - Georgij A. Klimov
On typological shift - M.M. Gukhman
Discourse function and word order shift: A typological study of the VS/SV alternation - Paul J. Hopper
On from and content in typology - Johanna Nichols
The meaning-form correspondence in grammatical description - Andrej A. Kibrik
A survey of major Alaskan language types - Michael E. Krauss