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The canonical approach in typology*

Author(s) -

Greville G. Corbett

Publication year - 2005

Publication title -

studies in language companion series

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Book series

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.161

H-Index - 3

ISSN - 0165-7763

DOI - 10.1075/slcs.72.03cor

Subject(s) - typology , non canonical , mathematics , computer science , sociology , biology , anthropology , microbiology and biotechnology

We are invited to consider ‘the proper object for theories of language structure’. Following Chomsky’s suggestion, we should aim to define the notion ‘possible human language’. As a part of that we need to develop the notion ‘possible word’. We were also asked to examine ‘the rich variation of forms and functions observed in the languages of the world’. This is the realm of typology, and I shall suggest that for typologists to make a full contribution we may need to refine our methods, as we move into more difficult areas of the typology of possible words.

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