The (early) history of linguistic typology / Paolo Ramat -- The pioneers of linguistic typology : from Gabelentz to Greenberg / Giorgio Graffi -- Linguistic typology and the study of language / ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Alexandra Aikhenvald: Languages can be classified into types based on numerous parameters. One concerns ...

Over the last few decades, there has been a tremendous increase in the production of descriptive grammars for languages that had previously been poorly described or lacked description altogether. In ...

Language research at the University of Helsinki has always maintained its strong commitment to a better understanding of cultural areas and their history. Situated in an ideal place for the study of ...

A closer look shows that rather than constituting a linguistic area on its own, the region between Lombok and Papua is simply part of a typological continuum that runs from the northern Austronesian ...