LIGN 236 | Language Universals and Linguistic Typology

Selected readings:

Comrie, Bernard. 1998. Rethinking the typology of relative clauses. Language Design 1: 59-86

Dryer, Matthew. 1989. Large linguistic areas and language sampling. Studies in Language 13: 257-92

Greenberg, Joseph. 1963. Some universals of grammar with particular reference to the order of meaningful elements.

Keenan, Edward L. 1984. Semantic correlates of the ergative/absolutive distinction. Linguistics 22

Kiss, Katalin E. 1995. Discourse Configurational Languages. Introduction. Discourse Configurational Languages (Ed. K. E. Kiss). New York, NY. 3-27

Kluender, Robert. 2005. Are subject islands subject to a processing account? WCCFL 23: 475-499

Lupyan, Gary, and Morten Christiansen. 2002. Case, word order, and language learnability: Insights from connectionist modeling. Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 596-601.

Polinsky, Maria, and Eric Potsdam. 2005. Expanding the scope of control and raising. To appear in Syntax.

Tsunoda, Tasaku. 1981. Split case marking patterns. Linguistics 19: 389-438.

Van Everbroeck, Ezra. 2003. Language type frequency and learnabilty from a connectionist perspective. Linguistic Typology 7: 1-50.