LINGUIST List 8.791

Wed May 28 1997

TOC: (A)LT, Linguistic Typology

Editor for this issue: Ann Dizdar <annlinguistlist.org>

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LINGUISTIC TYPOLOGY,
published by Mouton de Gruyter for the Association for Linguistic
Typology (ALT); see the ALT home page at
http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/alt for further particulars about ALT and
LT.

Contents

LT 1-1 (1997)

The Editors
Linguistic Typology: Introducing a new journal

ARTICLES

Simon Kirby
Competing motivations and emergence: Explaining implicational
hierarchies

Scott DeLancey
Mirativity: The grammatical marking of unexpected information

THE IMPLICATIONS REGISTER
Frans Plank and Wolfgang Schellinger
The uneven distribution of genders over numbers: Greenberg Nos. 37 and
45

REVIEWS

Edith Moravcsik
Approaches to language typology, edited by Masayoshi Shibatani and
Theodora Bynon

Bernard Comrie
Zur Typologie der Jenissej-Sprachen, by Heinrich Werner

Michael Noonan
A grammar of Supyire, by Robert Carlson

Instructions for Contributors



LT 1-2 (1997)

ARTICLES

Jurgen Broschart
Why Tongan does it differently: Categorial distinctions in a language
without nouns and verbs

Jan Anward, Edith Moravcsik, and Leon Stassen
Parts of speech: A challenge for typology

Frans Plank (compiler)
Word classes in typology: Recommended reading

Zygmunt Frajzyngier
Grammaticalization and number: From demonstratives to nominal and
verbal plural

REVIEW ARTICLE

Gilbert Lazard
Ergativity, by R. M. W. Dixon

BOOK REVIEWS

Lyle Campbell
Mexicanische Grammatik, by Wilhelm von Humboldt (edited by Manfred
Ringmachezdr)

Lyle Campbell
Wilhelm von Humboldt und die amerikanischen Sprachen, edited by Klaus
Zimmermann, Jurgen Trabant, & Kurt Mueller-Vollmer




LT 1-3 (1997)

ARTICLES

Aleksandr E. Kibrik
Beyond subjects and objects: Towards a comprehensive relational
typology


Mark Donohue
Tone systems in New Guinea

BOOK REVIEWS

Jan Rijkhoff

Linguistic Typology, edited by Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm

Yaron Matras

A Handbook of Vlax Romani, by Ian Hancock

Yaron Matras
Das Romanes: Grammatik und Diskursanalyse der Sprache der Sinte,
by Daniel Holzinger