TOPIC 1: How to compare languages

Martin Haspelmath: Word class universals and language-particular analysis

https://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/005899

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.........., DATE: Sept 27


TOPIC 2: How many languages there are, and how to chose a sample

Anderson: How many languages there are in the world?

http://www.språkförsvaret.se/sf/fileadmin/PDF/How_many_languages_are_there_in_the_ world.pdf

Bakker: Language Sampling, In: The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Typology , Edited by Jae Jung Song
(article in study materials)

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........................................., DATE: Oct 4



TOPIC 3: Tools – World Atlas of Language Structure

https://wals.info

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......................, DATE: Oct 11


TOPIC 4: Relative clauses
https://www.jstor.org/stable/4177973


Keenan, Comrie: Noun Phrase Accessibility and Universal Grammar. Linguistic Inquiry.

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.........................., DATE: Oct 18



OCT 25 – NO CLASS

TOPIC 5: Typology and Universal Grammar

Guglielmo Cinque
Cognition, universal grammar, and typological generalizations
http://lear.unive.it/jspui/bitstream/11707/153/2/LINGUACognition%26UG.pdf

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...., DATE: Nov 1


TOPIC 6: Morphological typology: Semantic Maps

Martin Haspelmath
The geometry of grammatical meaning: semantic maps and cross-linguistic comparison
https://zenodo.org/record/831410#.XYR2sC3yru0

NAME: ... ................ ................ ................ ................ ................
............................., Nov 8


NOV 15 – NO CLASS


TOPIC 7: Morphological typology: comparatives
Bobaljik: Universals in comparative morphology, ch.2
https://semantics.uchicago.edu/kennedy/classes/w11/comparatives/docs/bobaljik.pdf

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..................., DATE: Nov 22


TOPIC 8: Semantic typology – color
Berlin and Kay: Basic color terms: Their universality and evolution

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........................................, DATE: Nov 29

TOPIC 9: Semantic typology – spatial markers

 https://pure.mpg.de/rest/items/item_58578_2/component/file_58579/content


Stephen Levinson, Sérgio Meira and The Language and Cognition Group: Topological
Domain-Adpositional Meanings in Crosslinguistic Perspective: An Exercise in Semantic Typology

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........................................, DATE: Dec 6