Jae Jung Song, Linguistic typology: morphology and syntax (Longman

The back cover of this book characterizes it as ‘an up-to-date critical introduction to linguistic typology’. The title might suggest that it gives equal coverage to morphology and syntax, but it is mainly about syntax. Chapter 1, ‘Introducing linguistic typology’, is a useful introduction to typology. For someone new to the area, it lays out the object of linguistic typology and discusses some of the important underlying assumptions (e.g. the Principle of Uniformitarianism). As an introduction, the book is up-to-date in that