The papers in this volume are revised versions of presentations at the conference on Language Universals and Language Typology in March 1985 at the University o

The three volumes of Language typology and syntactic description offer a unique survey of syntactic and morphological structure in the languages of the world. T

Offers an introduction to linguistic typology that covers various linguistic domains from phonology and morphology over parts-of-speech, the NP and the VP, to s