Open AccessSynchrony, diachrony and Greenberg's state-process model: From the viewpoint of typological characterization
Author(s) -
Lásló Desző
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
južnoslovenski filolog
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2406-0763
pISSN - 0350-185X
DOI - 10.2298/jfi0864109d
Subject(s) - typology , linguistics , word order , linguistic typology , history , state (computer science) , historical linguistics , computer science , philosophy , archaeology , algorithm
After a brief survey of the history of diachronic typology, the author focuses his attention on the typological methods applied to historical comparative linguistics. Then some basic issues of Greenberg's state-process model are examined as a possible model for diachronic typology. Morphological and word-order typology are used for the illustration of the author's statements and comments