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Typology

Index of SIL publications on Typology listed by country.

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General works

• Anonymous. 1994. "Berbice Dutch."
• BISHOP, Nancy M., author. 1986. A typology of causative constructions: an update.
• BISHOP, Nancy M., author. 1990. A typology of causatives, pragmatically speaking.
• BLACK, Cheryl A., author. 1996. Introduction to Government and Binding theory: X-Bar theory applied to languages with other word orders.  
• CASAD, Eugene H., author. 1999. Review of: Approaches to language typology, Masayoshi Shibatani and Theodora Byron, editors.
• CASALI, Roderic F., author. 2003. "[ATR] value asymmetries and underlying vowel inventory structure in Niger-Congo and Nilo-Saharan."
• CULY, Martin M., author. 1989. A typology of Koine relative clauses.
• DERBYSHIRE, Desmond C., author. 1998. Review of: Introduction to typology: The unity and diversity of language, by Lindsay J. Whaley.
• HAAN, Ferdinand de, author. 1999. Review of: Indefinite pronouns, by Martin Haspelmath.
• HAJEK, John; OLSON, Kenneth S., authors. 2003. "Crosslinguistic insights on the labial flap."  
• HOLLENBACH, Barbara E., author. 2005. "Some distinctive characteristics of the vocabulary in Middle American languages."
• HWANG, Shin Ja J., author. 1994. "Grammatical form versus information flow in translation."
• KIBRIK, Alexandr E., author. 1991. Semantically ergative languages in typological perspective.
• LEVINSOHN, Stephen H., author. 2002. "Towards a typology of additives."
• LONGACRE, Robert E., author. 1987. "The semantics of the storyline in East and West Africa."
• LONGACRE, Robert E., author. 1990. Storyline concerns and word order typology in East and West Africa.
• LONGACRE, Robert E., author. 1992. "The analysis of preverbal nouns in biblical Hebrew narrative: some overriding concerns."
• NICOLLE, Steve, author. 2005. Review of: Motion, direction and location in languages: in honor of Zygmunt Frajzyngier, Erin Shay and Uwe Seibert, editors.
• O’HERIN, Brian, author. 2010. Review of: Possible and probable languages: a generative perspective on linguistic typology.  
• PARKER, Stephen G., author. 2006. "La rinoglotofilia y el gruñido de afirmación—una tendencia universal."
• PAYNE, Doris L., author. 2001. Review of: The Amazonian languages, R. M. W. Dixon and Alexandra Aikhenvald, editors.
• QUAKENBUSH, J. Stephen; RUCH, Edward R., authors. 2006. "Pronoun ordering in Kalamianic."  
• SANDS, Kathy Lorraine, author. 2004. Patternings of vocalic sequences in the world’s languages.
• WATSON, Richard L., author. 1998. Review of: The grammar of inalienability: a typological perspective on body part terms and the part-whole relation, Hilary Chappell and William McGregor, editors.

Works specific to particular countries

Africa

Benin

• KLUGE, Angela, author. 2006. "Qualitative and quantitative analysis of grammatical features elicited among the Gbe language varieties of West Africa."

Cameroon

• BEAVON, Keith H., author. 1984. "A partial typology of Konzime (Bantu) discourse."

Chad

• WEISS, Doris, author. 2009. Phonologie et morphosyntaxe du Maba.

Côte d’Ivoire

• CARLSON, Robert, author. 1991. "Grammaticalization of postpositions and word order in Senufo languages."

Ethiopia

• PAYNE, Doris L., author. 1992. "Towards a more adequate approach to ’focus’ phenomena (Review of ’Generating narratives: interrelations of knowledge, text variants, and Cushitic focus strategies, by Klaus Wedekind)."
• UNSETH, Peter, author. 1987. "A typological anomaly in some Surma languages."
• WEDEKIND, Klaus, author. 1990. Generating narratives: interrelations of knowledge, text variants, and Cushitic focus strategies.

Ghana

• CASALI, Roderic F., author. 1996. A typology of vowel coalescence.
• KLUGE, Angela, author. 2006. "Qualitative and quantitative analysis of grammatical features elicited among the Gbe language varieties of West Africa."

Kenya

• PAYNE, Doris L., author. 1997. "The Maasai external possessor construction."
• PAYNE, Doris L., author. 1998. "Maasai gender in typological perspective."

Mali

• CARLSON, Robert, author. 1991. "Grammaticalization of postpositions and word order in Senufo languages."

Nigeria

• KLUGE, Angela, author. 2006. "Qualitative and quantitative analysis of grammatical features elicited among the Gbe language varieties of West Africa."

Sudan

• UNSETH, Peter, author. 1987. "A typological anomaly in some Surma languages."

Togo

• KLUGE, Angela, author. 2006. "Qualitative and quantitative analysis of grammatical features elicited among the Gbe language varieties of West Africa."

Americas

Bolivia

• PRETTOL, Kenneth A., author. 1986. "Variacion del orden de las palabras, elipsis y cambio de tiempo en el discurso narrativo en esse ejja."

Brazil

• AIKHENVALD, Alexandra Y.; GREEN, Diana, authors. 1998. "Palikur and the typology of classifiers."  
• DERBYSHIRE, Desmond C., author. 1981. Language universals, syntactic typology, and diachronic syntax: a select bibliography, with introductory survey.
• DERBYSHIRE, Desmond C., author. 1985. Hixkaryana and Linguistic Typology.  
• DERBYSHIRE, Desmond C., author. 1986. "Topic continuity and OVS order in Hixkaryana."
• DERBYSHIRE, Desmond C., author. 2008. "Syntactic typology."
• DERBYSHIRE, Desmond C.; PULLUM, Geoffrey K., editors. 1986. Handbook of Amazonian languages, vol. 1.
• EVERETT, Daniel L.; SEKI, Lucy, authors. 1986. Deletion, reduplication and CV skeleta in Kamaiura.
• HARRISON, Carl H., author. 1986. "Verb prominence, verb initialness, ergativity and typological disharmony in Guajajara."
• LANDIN, David J., author. 1984. "An outline of the syntactic structure of Karitiâna sentences."  
• SEKI, Lucy, author. 1990. "Kamaiurá (Tupí-Guaraní) as an active-stative language."

Ecuador

• MOORE, Bruce R., author. 1961. "A statistical morpho-syntactic typology study of Colorado (Chibcha)."

Mexico

• HOLLENBACH, Barbara E., author. 1995. A preliminary catalog of focus devices in Mixtecan languages.  
• MARLETT, Stephen A., author. 1993. Goals and indirect objects in Seri.
• MARLETT, Stephen A., author. 2005. "A typological overview of the Seri language."  
• PICKETT, Velma B., author. 1983. "Mexican Indian languages and Greenberg’s ‘Universals of grammar’."
• RENSCH, Calvin R., author. 1978. "Typological and genetic consideration in the classification of the Otomanguean languages."

Peru

• BERGLI, Ågot; COOMBS, Heidi, editors. 2008. Estudios quechuas II.  
• CHÁVEZ, Margarethe S., author. 1998. "Interclausal reference in Amahuaca."
• HINTZ, Diane M., author. 2003. "Pragmatics of word order in South Conchucos Quechua."
• LONGACRE, Robert E., author. 1993. Review of: The pragmatics of word order: Typological dimensions of verb initial languages, by Doris L. Payne.
• MARSCH, Angelika, author. 2008. "El movimiento presentativo: sus efectos en el orden de las palabras."
• PAYNE, Doris L., author. 1986. "Basic constituent order in Yagua clauses: implications for word order universals."
• PAYNE, Doris L., author. 1990. The pragmatics of word order: Typological dimensions of verb initial languages.
• PAYNE, Doris L., author. Available: 2011; Created: 1981. Orden básico de los elementos gramaticales en yagua.
• PAYNE, Thomas E., author. 1986. Report on the fourteenth annual University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Linguistics Symposium, March 29-30, 1985.
• PAYNE, Thomas E., author. 1988. Categorized and prioritized bibliography on language typology.
• PAYNE, Thomas E., author. 1988. Roots and concerns of typological/functional linguistics.
• WISE, Mary Ruth, author. 1980. "Hacia una tipología del texto narrativo en las lenguas indígenas del Peru."
• WISE, Mary Ruth, author. 1992. "Focus of attention in narrative text and word order typology."

United States

• LEMAN, Elena M., author. 1999. Cheyenne Major Constituent Order.  

Asia

Cambodia

• AMARA Prasithrathsint; NATCHANAN Yaowapat, authors. 2009. "A typology of relative clauses in Mainland Southeast Asian languages."  

India

• NAGARAJA, K. S., author. 1994. "Khasi dialects: a typological consideration."  

Iran

• LEE, S. Noah, author. 1996. A grammar of Iranian Azerbaijani.
• ROBERTS, John R., author. 2005. Scrambling in Persian: an RRG approach.  

Laos

• AMARA Prasithrathsint; NATCHANAN Yaowapat, authors. 2009. "A typology of relative clauses in Mainland Southeast Asian languages."  
• MILLER, Carolyn P., author. 1996. "Application of typologies for language maintenance and loss to Southeast Asian linguistic minorities: the case of the Bru-So and Kadazan-Dusun language continua."

Malaysia

• MILLER, Carolyn P., author. 1996. "Application of typologies for language maintenance and loss to Southeast Asian linguistic minorities: the case of the Bru-So and Kadazan-Dusun language continua."

Nepal

• TOBA, Sueyoshi, author. 1989. "Typological view of languages."
• TOBA, Sueyoshi, author. 1999. "A typological comparison of Nepali and Japanese."
• WATTERS, David E., author. 1995. Transitivity types and verb classes in Kham.
• WATTERS, David E., author. 1999. The iconicity of direction marking in Kham.
• WATTERS, David E., author. 2005. "Kusunda: a typological isolate in South Asia."

Philippines

• ASHLEY, Lois; ASHLEY, Seymour, authors. 1971. "Outline of sentence types of Tausug."
• BRAINARD, Sherri; VANDER MOLEN, Ena, authors. 2005. "Word order inverse in Obo Manobo."  

Thailand

• AMARA Prasithrathsint; NATCHANAN Yaowapat, authors. 2009. "A typology of relative clauses in Mainland Southeast Asian languages."  
• MILLER, Carolyn P., author. 1996. "Application of typologies for language maintenance and loss to Southeast Asian linguistic minorities: the case of the Bru-So and Kadazan-Dusun language continua."

Viet Nam

• AMARA Prasithrathsint; NATCHANAN Yaowapat, authors. 2009. "A typology of relative clauses in Mainland Southeast Asian languages."  

Europe

United Kingdom

• BLACK, Cheryl A., author. 2009. Review of: Principles and parameters in a VSO language: a case study in Welsh, by Ian G. Roberts.  

Pacific

Papua New Guinea

• MURANE, Elizabeth, author. 1978. Grammatical typologies of languages of Papua New Guinea.
• STALEY, William, author. 2007. Referent management in Olo: a cognitive perspective.  
• WHITEHEAD, Carl R., author. 1981. "Subject, object, and indirect object: Towards a typology of Papuan languages."