Typology
Index of SIL publications on Typology listed by country.
See only SIL publications on Typology available online or for purchase from SIL International Publications.
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
Cameroon
Chad
Côte d’Ivoire
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
Nigeria
Sudan
Togo
Americas
Bolivia
Brazil
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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.
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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."
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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
Mexico
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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.
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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
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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
Asia
Cambodia
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AMARA Prasithrathsint; NATCHANAN Yaowapat, authors. 2009. "A typology of relative clauses in Mainland Southeast Asian languages."
India
Iran
- LEE, S. Noah, author. 1996. A grammar of Iranian Azerbaijani.
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ROBERTS, John R., author. 2005. Scrambling in Persian: an RRG approach.
Laos
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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
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."
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BRAINARD, Sherri; VANDER MOLEN, Ena, authors. 2005. "Word order inverse in Obo Manobo."
Thailand
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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
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AMARA Prasithrathsint; NATCHANAN Yaowapat, authors. 2009. "A typology of relative clauses in Mainland Southeast Asian languages."
Europe
United Kingdom
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BLACK, Cheryl A., author. 2009. Review of: Principles and parameters in a VSO language: a case study in Welsh, by Ian G. Roberts.