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Typology

Index of SIL publications on Typology listed by country.

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General works

• Bishop, Nancy M. 1986. A typology of causative constructions: an update.
• Bishop, Nancy M. 1990. "A typology of causatives, pragmatically speaking."
• Black, Cheryl A. 1996. "Introduction to Government and Binding theory: X-Bar theory applied to languages with other word orders."  
• Casad, Eugene H. 1999. Review of: Approaches to language typology, Masayoshi Shibatani and Theodora Byron, editors.
• Casali, Roderic F. 2003. "[ATR] value asymmetries and underlying vowel inventory structure in Niger-Congo and Nilo-Saharan."
• Culy, Martin M. 1989. "A typology of Koine relative clauses."
• De Haan, Ferdinand. 1999. Review of: Indefinite pronouns, by Martin Haspelmath.
• Derbyshire, Desmond C. 1998. Review of: Introduction to typology: The unity and diversity of language, by Lindsay J. Whaley.
• Hollenbach, Barbara E. 2005. "Some distinctive characteristics of the vocabulary in Middle American languages."
• Hwang, Shin Ja J. 1994. "Grammatical form versus information flow in translation."
• Kibrik, Alexandr E. 1991. "Semantically ergative languages in typological perspective."
• Levinsohn, Stephen H. 2002. "Towards a typology of additives."
• Longacre, Robert E. 1987. "The semantics of the storyline in East and West Africa."
• Longacre, Robert E. 1990. Storyline concerns and word order typology in East and West Africa.
• Longacre, Robert E. 1992. "The analysis of preverbal nouns in biblical Hebrew narrative: some overriding concerns."
• Nicolle, Steve. 2005. Review of: Motion, direction and location in languages: in honor of Zygmunt Frajzyngier, Erin Shay and Uwe Seibert, editors.
• Olson, Kenneth S. and John Hajek. 2003. "Crosslinguistic insights on the labial flap."
• Parker, Steve. 2006. "La rinoglotofilia y el gruñido de afirmación—una tendencia universal."
• Payne, Doris L. 2001. Review of: The Amazonian languages, R. M. W. Dixon and Alexandra Aikhenvald, editors.
• Quakenbush, J. Stephen and Edward Ruch. 2006. "Pronoun ordering in Kalamianic."  
• Sands, Kathy Lorraine. 2004. Patternings of vocalic sequences in the world’s languages.
• Watson, Richard. 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. 2006. "Qualitative and quantitative analysis of grammatical features elicited among the Gbe language varieties of West Africa."

Cameroon

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

Chad

• Weiss, Doris. 2009. Phonologie et morphosyntaxe du Maba.

Côte d’Ivoire

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

Ethiopia

• Payne, Doris L. 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. 1987. "A typological anomaly in some Surma languages."
• Wedekind, Klaus. 1990. Generating narratives: interrelations of knowledge, text variants, and Cushitic focus strategies.

Ghana

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

Kenya

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

Mali

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

Nigeria

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

Sudan

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

Togo

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

Americas

Bolivia

• Prettol, Kenneth A. 1986-1987. "Variacion del orden de las palabras, elipsis y cambio de tiempo en el discurso narrativo en esse ejja."

Brazil

• Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y. and Diana Green. 1998. "Palikur and the typology of classifiers."
• Derbyshire, Desmond C. 1981. "Language universals, syntactic typology, and diachronic syntax: a select bibliography, with introductory survey."
• Derbyshire, Desmond C. 1985. Hixkaryana and linguistic typology.  
• Derbyshire, Desmond C. 1986. "Topic continuity and OVS order in Hixkaryana."
• Derbyshire, Desmond C. 2008. "Syntactic typology."
• Derbyshire, Desmond C. and Geoffrey K. Pullum, editors. 1986. Handbook of Amazonian languages, vol. 1.
• Everett, Daniel L. and Lucy Seki. 1986. "Deletion, reduplication and CV skeleta in Kamaiura."
• Harrison, Carl H. 1986. "Verb prominence, verb initialness, ergativity and typological disharmony in Guajajara."
• Landin, David J. 1984. "An outline of the syntactic structure of Karitiâna sentences."  
• Seki, Lucy. 1990. "Kamaiurá (Tupí-Guaraní) as an active-stative language."

Ecuador

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

Mexico

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

Peru

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

United States

• Leman, Elena M. 1999. Cheyenne major constituent order.  

Asia

Cambodia

• Amara Prasithrathsint and Natchanan Yaowapat. 2009. "A typology of relative clauses in Mainland Southeast Asian languages."  

India

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

Iran

• Lee, Sooman Noah. 1996. A grammar of Iranian Azerbaijani.
• Roberts, John R. 2005. Scrambling in Persian: an RRG approach.  

Laos

• Amara Prasithrathsint and Natchanan Yaowapat. 2009. "A typology of relative clauses in Mainland Southeast Asian languages."  

Nepal

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

Philippines

• Ashley, Seymour and Lois Ashley. 1971. "Outline of sentence types of Tausug."
• Brainard, Sherri and Ena Vander Molen. 2005. "Word order inverse in Obo Manobo."  

Thailand

• Amara Prasithrathsint and Natchanan Yaowapat. 2009. "A typology of relative clauses in Mainland Southeast Asian languages."  

Viet Nam

• Amara Prasithrathsint and Natchanan Yaowapat. 2009. "A typology of relative clauses in Mainland Southeast Asian languages."  

Pacific

Papua New Guinea

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