typology of iranian languages

word order typology of iranian languages

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African languages and linguistic typology

Sociolinguistic Typology and Sign Languages

This paper examines the possible relationship between proposed social determinants of morphological 'complexity' and how this contributes to linguistic diversity, specifically via the typological nature of the sign languages of deaf communities. We sketch how the notion of morphological complexity, as defined by Trudgill (2011), applies to sign languages. Using these criteria, sign languages ap...

Language Typology and the Comparison of Languages

While comparison of languages presupposes a common framework neutral to the structures of the languages compared and contrasted, the contemporary grammatical terms and concepts have been developed primarily on the basis of Accusative-type European languages. This has created a great deal of confusion in the universals research. Typological studies in recent years have in part been concerned wit...

Morphological typology of languages for IR

This paper presents a morphological classification of languages from the IR perspective. Linguistic typology research has shown that the morphological complexity of each language of the world can be described by two variables, index of synthesis and index of fusion. These variables provide a theoretical basis for IR research handling morphological issues. A common theoretical framework is neede...

Typology and Logical Structure of Natural Languages

This paper focuses on some relationships between logic and natural languages, a topic that is crucial in Western philosophy (From Aristotle, to medieval Modistae, to Leibniz and the founders of modern mathematical logic). Speciically, the search for a universal grammar is considered in connection with linguistic typology (see Green-berg's Universals of Grammar) and formalisms for knowledge repr...