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Linguistic Typology 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

Linguistic Typology 1-2 (1997)

Articles

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

Linguistic Typology 1-3 (1997)

Articles

Aleksandr E. Kibrik--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.

Linguistic Typology 2-1 (1998)

Articles

Anna Siewierska--On nominal and verbal person marking.
Peter Cole and Gabriella Hermon--Long distance reflexives in Singapore Malay: An apparent typological anomaly.
Johan van der Auwera and Vladimir A. Plungian--Modality’s semantic map.

Book reviews

Ferdinand de Haan--Modality in Grammar and Discourse, edited by Joan Bybee and Suzanne Fleischman.
Martin Haspelmath--Historical Syntax in Cross-Linguistic Perspective, by Alice C. Harris and Lyle Campbell.

Linguistic Typology 2-2 (1998)

Articles

Anna Wierzbicka--Anchoring linguistic typology in universal concepts.
Frans Plank--The co-variation of phonology with morphology and syntax: A hopeful history.

Review article

John Moore and Maria Polinsky--Causation and Causatives: A Universal-Typological Perspective, by Jae Jung Song.

Book reviews

Scott DeLancey--L’Actance, by Gilbert Lazard.
Bernard Comrie--L’Occultif, by Ahmed Brahim.
Fritz Schweiger--The Ergative in Proto-Australian, by Kristina Sands.

Linguistic Typology 2-3 (1998)

Articles


Jan Rijkhoff and Dik Bakker--Language sampling
Nikolaus Himmelmann--Regularity in irregularity: Article use in adpositional phrases.
Mauro Tosco--A parsing view on inconsistent word order: Articles in Tigre and its relatives.

Review article

Balthasar Bickel--Converbs in Cross-linguistic Perspective, edited by Martin Haspelmath and Ekkehard König.

Book reviews

John Newman--Syntax: Structure, meaning and function, by Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. and Randy LaPolla
Franz Müller-Gotama--Deutsch--typologisch, edited by Ewald Lang and Gisela Zifonun.

Linguistic Typology 3-1 (1999)

Articles

Holger Diessel--The morphosyntax of demonstratives in synchrony and diachrony.
Mario Squartini--On the semantics of the Pluperfect: Evidence from Germanic and Romance.
Gilbert Lazard--Mirativity, evidentiality, mediativity, or other?

Review article

D.N.S. Bhat--The Typology of Adjectival Predication, by Harrie Wetzer; Intransitive Predication, by Leon Stassen.

Book reviews

Edith A. Moravcsik--Introduction to Typology: The Unity and Diversity of Language, by Lindsay J. Whaley.
Malcolm Ross--Linguistic Reconstruction and Typology, edited by Jacek Fisiak; Linguistic Typology, Universality and the Realism of Reconstruction, by Frederick W. Schwink
Rachel Nordlinger--Martuthunira: A Language of the Pilbara Region of Western Australia, by Alan Dench.

Linguistic Typology 3-2 (1999)

Articles

Gertraud Fenk-Oczlon and August Fenk--Cognition, quantitative linguistics, and systemic typology.
Ian R. L. Davies, Tat’jana Sosenskaja, and Greville G. Corbett--The colours of Tsakhur: First account of the basic colour terms of a Nakh-Daghestanian language.

Family Portrait

J. Diego Quesada--Chibchan, with special reference to participant-highlighting.

Review article

Cliff Goddard--Color Categories in Thought and Language, edited by C. L. Hardin and Luisa Maffi.

Book reviews

Peter Bakker--Describing Morphosyntax: A Guide for Field Linguists, by Thomas Payne.
Svetlana Grigorieva--Phasal Polarity, by Tim van Baar.

Linguistic Typology 3-3 (1999)

Articles

Frans Plank--Split morphology: How agglutination and flexion mix.
Gary Holton--Categoriality of property words in a switch-adjective language

Book Reviews

Martin Haspelmath--La typologie actancielle, edited by Gilbert Lazard
Jan Terje Faarlund--Ergativity: Argument Structure and Grammatical Relations, by Christopher Manning
Gilbert Lazard--The Decay of Ergativity in Kurmanci, by Margreet Dorleijn
Vera Podlesskaja--Essays on Language Function and Language Type: Dedicated to T. Givon, edited by Joan Bybee, John Haiman, and Sandra A. Thompson
Yaron Matras--Tense Systems in European Languages, edited by Rolf Thieroff (and Joachim Ballweg)
J. Diego Quesada--Verbal Periphrases in Romance: Aspect, Actionality, and Grammaticalization, by Mario Squartini; Verbal Periphrases in a Functional Grammar of Spanish, by Hella Olbertz
Keren Rice--The Navajo Verb: A Grammar for Students and Scholars, by Leonard M. Faltz
Nicholas Ostler--Endangered Languages: Current Issues and Future Prospects, edited by Lenore A. Grenoble and Lindsay J. Whaley

Linguistic Typology 4-1 (2000)

Articles

Leon Stassen--AND-languages and WITH-languages
Jennifer Elliott--Realis and irrealis: Forms and concepts of the grammaticalisation of reality

Family Portrait

Nicholas Evans--Iwaidjan, a very un-Australian language family

Review Article

Miriam Butt--Constructive Case, by Rachel Nordlinger

Book Reviews

Michael Dunn--Linguistic Diversity, by Daniel Nettle
Martin Haspelmath--Function, Selection, and Innateness: The Emergence of Language Universals, by Simon Kirby
Umberto Ansaldo--Cognitive Foundations of Grammar, by Bernd Heine
Zygmunt Frajzyngier--The Limits of Grammaticalization, edited by Anna Giacalone Ramat and Paul J. Hopper
John Newman--A Grammar of Kayardild, by Nicholas D. Evans

Linguistic Typology 4-2 (2000)

Articles

Regina Pustet--How arbitrary is lexical categorization? Verbs vs. adjectives
David Beck--The syntax, semantics, and typology of adjectives in Upper Necaxa Totonac
Amara Prasithrathsint--Adjectives as verbs in Thai

Book Reviews

Holger Diessel--Deiktikon, Artikel, Nominalphrase: Zur Emergenz syntaktischer Struktur, by Nikolaus P. Himmelmann
Ton van der Wouden--Indefinite Pronouns, by Martin Haspelmath
Umberto Ansaldo--Cognitive Foundations of Grammar, by Bernd Heine
Zygmunt Frajzyngier--The Limits of Grammaticalization, edited by Anna Giacalone Ramat and Paul J. Hopper
Bernard Comrie--Dictionary of Languages: The Definitive Reference to More than 400 Languages, by Andrew Dalby

Linguistic Typology 4-3 (2000)

Articles

Elena Maslova--A dynamic approach to the verification of distributional universals

Commentary

Matthew S. Dryer--Counting genera vs. counting languages
Revere D. Perkins--The view from hologeistic linguistics
Fritz Schweiger--Few languages in a short time interval?

Author’s Response

Elena Maslova--Stochastic models in typology: obstacle or prerequisite?
D. N. S. Bhat--The indefinite-interrogative puzzle

Book Reviews

Paolo Ramat--La négation, edited by Anaîd Donabédian
Laura J. Downing--Bantu Historical Linguistics, edited by Jean-Marie Hombert and Larry Hyman

Linguistic Typology 5-1 (2001)

Articles

Cliff Goddard--Lexico-semantic universals: A critical overview
Angela Terrill--Activation levels in Lavukaleve demonstratives: oia versus foia

Area Survey

Frans Plank--"Paleo-Siberian": Editorial note
Lena Maslova
Abriss der tschuktschischen Grammatik, by Hans R. Kämpfe and Alexander P. Volodin
Die ketische Sprache, by Heinrich Werner, and Abriss der kottischen Grammatik, by Heinrich Werner
Die itelmenische Sprache, by Stefan Georg and Alexander P. Volodin

Book reviews

Holger Diessel--Definiteness, by Christopher Lyons
Keith Allan--Classifiers, by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

Linguistic Typology 5-2/3 (2001)

Editorial note

Target Article

John McWhorter--The world’s simplest grammars are creole grammars

Commentary

Claude Hagège--Creoles and the notion of simplicity in human languages
Pieter A. M. Seuren--Simple and transparent
Jacques Arends--Simple grammars, complex languages
Wouter Kusters and Pieter Muysken--The complexities of arguing about complexity
Claire Lefebvre--What you see is not always what you get: Apparent simplicity and hidden complexity in creole languages
Michel DeGraff--On the origin of creoles: A Cartesian critique of ``neo’’-Darwinian linguistics
Umberto R. Ansaldo and Stephen J. Matthews--Typical creoles and simple languages: The case of Sinitic
David Gil--Creoles, complexity, and Riau Indonesian
Peter Trudgill--Contact and simplification: Historical baggage and directionality in linguistic change
Östen Dahl--Complexification, erosion, and baroqueness
Wolfgang U. Wurzel--Creoles, complexity, and linguistic change

Author’s Response

John McWhorter--What people ask David Gil and why: Rejoinder to the replies

Linguistic Typology 6-1 (2002)

Remembering Joseph H. Greenberg (1915-2001)

William Croft--On being a student of Joe Greenberg
T. Givón--Bumping into Joe, repeatedly: Joseph Greenberg the theorist
Matthew Dryer--Minute details, the big picture, and Joseph Greenberg
Larry Hyman--A linguist without limitations
Claude Hagège--Under Greenberg’s wings Hansjakob Seiler--Joseph H. Greenberg: A universal linguist
Frans Plank--Ahead of even Greenberg, for once: Paul (``Person’’) Forchheimer

Articles

Vladimir Pericliev--Economy in formulating typological generalizations
Michael Cysouw--Interpreting typological clusters

Book Reviews

Gilbert Lazard--Changing Valency: Case Studies in Transitivity, edited by R. M. W. Dixon and Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
Kashi Wali--Verb Movement and the Syntax of Kashmiri, by Rakesh Mohan Bhatt
Waldfried Premper--Mittel der Satzverknüpfung im Deutschen und Japanischen, by Marion Grein
Angela Terrill--The Interface between Syntax and Discourse in Korafe, by Cynthia J. M. Farr
Andrej A. Kibrik--The Languages of North America, by Marianne Mithun
Dan Everett--The Amazonian Languages, by R. M. W. Dixon and Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

Linguistic Typology 6-2 (2002)

Recollections of Kenneth L. Hale (1934 2001)

John R. Ross
Daniel L. Everett
Eloise Jelinek and Heidi Harley
Ella Perkins
MaryAnn Willie
Colette Grinevald
Peter K. Austin

Article

Zygmunt Frajzyngier, Holly Krech, and Armik Mirzayan--Motivation for copula in equational clauses

Review Article

Hans-Jürgen Sasse--Recent activity in the theory of aspect: Accomplishments, achievements, or just non-progressive state?

Book Reviews

Regina Pustet--The Prominence of Tense, Aspect and Mood, by D. N. S. Bhat
Timothy Jowan Curnow--Evidentials: Turkic, Iranian and Neighbouring Languages, edited by Lars Johanson and Bo Utas
Gary Holton--Morpheme Order and Semantic Scope: Word Formation in the Athapaskan Verb, by Keren Rice

Linguistic Typology 6-3 (2002)

Articles

Edith Moravcsik--The ALT Junior Award
Konstantin I. Kazenin--Focus in Daghestanian and word order typology
Sergej Tatevosov--The parameter of actionality

Review Article

Maria Polinsky--The marvels of Tsakhur: Elementy caxurskogo jazyka tipologiceskom osvescenii, edited by Aleksandr E. Kibrik and Jakov G. Testelec

Contents of Linguistic Typology, volume 6


Linguistic Typology 7-1 (2003)

Articles

Ezra van Everbroeck--Language-type frequency and learnability from a connectionist perspective
Michael Fortescue--Diachronic typology and the genealogical unity of Chukotko-Kamchatkan

Pro and Con

Michael Cysouw--Against implicational universals
Elena Maslova--A case for implicational universals
Matthew S. Dryer--Significant and non-significant implicational universals
Frans Plank--There’s more than one way to make sense of one-way implications, and no reason to dump the good ones whatever their sense

Review Article

Jae Jung Song--The UNITYP (re-)view: Language Universals Research: A Synthesis, by Hansjakob Seiler

Review

Peter Bakker--Language Relations across Bering Strait, by Michael Fortescue

Linguistic Typology 7-2 (2003)

Articles

Kenneth S. Olson and John Hajek--Crosslinguistic insights on the labial flap
Orin D. Gensler--Object ordering in verbs marking two pronominal objects: Non-explanation and explanation
Robert Botne--To die across languages: Toward a typology of achievement verbs

Reviews

Larry Hyman--The Structure of Tone, by Zhiming Bao
Mark Donohue--The Design of Agreement: Evidence from Chamorro, by Sandra Chung
Mayrene Bentley--Animacy and Reference, by Mutsumi Yamamoto
Helma van den Berg--Introduction to Linguistic Fieldwork Methods, by Bert Vaux and Justin Cooper
Helma van den Berg--Linguistic Fieldwork, edited by Paul Newman and Martha Ratliff

Linguistic Typology 7-3 (2003)

Articles

Roderic F. Casali--[ATR] value asymmetries and underlying vowel inventory structure in Niger-Congo and Nilo-Saharan
Tonya Stebbins--On the status of intermediate form classes: Words, clitics, and affixes in Sm’algyax (Coast Tsimshian)
Sérgio Meira--Mental state postpositions in Tiriyó and other Cariban languages

Reviews

Silvia Luraghi--Variierende Markierung von Nominalgruppen in Sprachen unterschiedlichen Typs, edited by Winfried Boeder and Gerd Hentschel
Franz Müller-Gotama--Sprachtypologie des Deutschen, by Thorsten Roelcke

Linguistic Typology 8-1 (2004)

Articles

Ulrike Zeshan--Hand, head, and face: Negative constructions in sign languages
Eva Schultze-Berndt and Nikolaus P. Himmelmann--Depictive secondary predicates in crosslinguistic perspective

Reviews

Silvia Luraghi--Variierende Markierung von Nominalgruppen in Sprachen unterschiedlichen Typs, edited by Winfried Boeder and Gerd Hentschel
Silvia Luraghi--The Origin of Agent Markers, by Enrique Palancar

To/from the Editors

R. M. W. Dixon--Correction of error
Frans Plank--Editorial note on reported speech, tense, and double negation

Linguistic Typology 8-2 (2004)

Articles

Johanna Nichols, David A. Peterson, and Jonathan Barnes--Transitivizing and detransitivizing languages
Sérgio Meira--Mental state postpositions in Tiriyó and other Cariban languages
Colette Grinevald and Frank Seifart--Noun classes in African and Amazonian languages: Towards a comparison

Book Reviews

Keren Rice--Endoclitics and the Origins of Udi Morphosyntax, by Alice C. Harris
Volker Heeschen--Wörterbuch der mexicanischen Sprache, by Eduard Buschmann and Wilhelm von Humboldt (edited by Manfred Ringmacher)

Linguistic Typology 8-3 (2004)

Target article

Peter Trudgill--Linguistic and social typology: The Austronesian migrations and phoneme inventories

Commentary

Keren Rice--Language contact, phoneme inventories, and the Athapaskan language family
John Hajek--Small consonant inventories as an areal feature of the New Guinea-Pacific region: Testing Trudgill’s hypotheses
Barýh Kabak--Acquiring phonology is not acquiring inventories but contrasts: The loss of primary long vowels in Turkic and Korean
Peter Bakker--Phoneme inventories, language contact, and grammatical complexity: A critique of Trudgill
Vladimir Pericliev--There is no correlation between the size of a community speaking a language and the size of the phonological inventory of that language

Author’s response

Peter Trudgill--On the complexity of simplification

Language profile

Alex François--A typological overview of Mwotlap, an Oceanic language of Vanuatu

Book reviews

Andrej A. Kibrik--Anaphors: A Cross-linguistic Study, by Yan Huang
Andrew Spencer--Problems of Polysynthesis, edited by Nicholas Evans and Hans-Jürgen Sasse
Gilbert Lazard--Aspects of Typology and Universals, edited by Walter Bisang

Linguistic Typology 9-1 (2005)

Articles

Greville G. Corbett--Suppletion in personal pronouns: Theory versus practice, and the place of reproducibility in typology
Isabelle Bril--Semantic and functional diversification of reciprocal and middle prefixes in New Caledonian and other Austronesian languages

The Universals Register

Elena Filimonova--The noun phrase hierarchy and relational marking: Problems and counterevidence

Language Profile

Alex François--A typological overview of Mwotlap, an Oceanic language of Vanuatu

Book reviews

Steve Nicolle--Motion, Direction and Location in Languages, edited by Erin Shay and Uwe Seibert
Gilbert Lazard--Non-canonical Marking of Subjects and Objects, edited by Alexandra Aikhenvald, R. M. W. Dixon, and Masayuki Onishi

Obituary

Nicholas Evans--Listening to the Pacific: In remembrance of Terry Crowley

Linguistic Typology 9-2 (2005)

Articles

Joan Bybee--Restrictions on phonemes in affixes: A crosslinguistic test of a popular hypothesis
Jean-Christophe Verstraete--The semantics and pragmatics of composite mood marking: The non-Pama-Nyungan languages of northern Australia
Seppo Kittilä--Recipient-prominence vs. beneficiary-prominence

Review Articles

Irina Nikolaeva--A Grammar of Kolyma Yukaghir, by Elena Maslova
Edward J. Vajda--Die Diathese in den Jenissej-Sprachen aus typologischer Sicht, by Heinrich Werner

Book Reviews

Claire Bowern--Bininj Gun-wok: A Pan-Dialectal Grammar of Mayali, Kunwinjku and Kune, by Nicholas Evans, and The Non-Pama-Nyungan Languages of Northern Australia, edited by Nicholas Evans

Linguistic Typology 9-3 (2005)

Target Article

Nicholas Evans and Toshiki Osada--Mundari: The myth of a language without word classes

Commentary

John Peterson--There’s a grain of truth in every “myth", or, Why the discussion of lexical classes in Mundari isn’t quite over yet
Kees Hengeveld and Jan Rijkhoff--Mundari as a flexible language
William Croft--Word classes, parts of speech, and syntactic argumentation

Authors’ Response

Nicholas Evans and Toshiki Osada--Mundari and argumentation in word-class analysis

Articles

Frans Plank--Delocutive verbs, crosslinguistically
Heriberto Avelino--The typology of Pamean number systems and the limits of Mesoamerica as a linguistic area

Linguistic Typology 10-1 (2006)

Articles

Ryan K. Shosted--Correlating complexity: A typological approach
Heriberto Avelino--The typology of Pamean number systems and the limits of Mesoamerica as a linguistic area
Gilbert Lazard--More on counterfactuality, and on categories in general

Debate

The Editorial Board: Re-doing typology
Alice C. Harris, Larry M. Hyman, & James V. Staros--What is reproducibility?
Martin Haspelmath & Sven Siegmund--Simulating the replication of some of Greenberg's word-order generalizations
Thomas Widmann & Peter Bakker--Does sampling matter? A test in replicability, concerning numerals
Johanna Nichols, with Jonathan Barnes & David A. Peterson--The robust bell curve of morphological complexity
Ian Maddieson--Correlating phonological complexity: Data and validation
Hilary Chappell--Reproducibility: A Summing up

Book Reviews

Frans Plank--Introduzione alla tipologia linguistica, edited by Sonia Cristofaro and Paolo Ramat
Frans Plank--Universales del lenguaje y lingua-diversidad, by Teresa Moure

Linguistic Typology 10-2 (2006)

Articles

Roland Pfau and Markus Steinbach--Pluralization in sign and in speech: A cross-modal typological study
Mark L. O. Van de Velde--Multifunctional agreement patterns in Bantu and the possibility of genderless nouns
Ekkehard König and Volker Gast--Focused assertion of identity: A typology of intensifiers

Review Article

Edith A. Moravcsik--Possible and probable languages: On a book by Frederick J. Newmeyer

Linguistic Typology 10-3 (2006)

Articles

Ilana Mushin--Motivations for second position: Evidence from North-Central Australia
Stephen Morey--Constituent order change in the Tai languages of Assam
Ashwini Deo and Devyani Sharma--Typological variation in the ergative morphology of Indo-Aryan languages
Dirk P. Janssen, Balthasar Bickel, and Fernando Zuñiga--Randomization tests in language typology

Book Reviews

Frans Plank--Präpositionale Dativmarkierung im Oberdeutschen, by Guido Seiler
N. J. Enfield--A Grammar of Semelai, by Nicole Kruspe

Announcement

Frans Plank with Thomas Mayer--THE UNIVERSALS ARCHIVE goes do-it-yourself

The second five years of LT: Editorial report
Contents of Linguistic Typology, volume 10

Linguistic Typology 11-1 (2007)

Whither linguistic typology -- an und für sich and in relation to other types of linguistic pursuits?
Preface

Jae Jung Song--What or where can we do better? Some personal reflections on (the tenth anniversary of) Linguistic Typology
Gilbert Lazard--Wider and deeper
Edith A. Moravcsik--What is universal about typology?
Frans Plank--Extent and limits of linguistic diversity as the remit of typology--but through constraints on WHAT is diversity limited?
Michael Daniel--Representative sampling and typological explanation: A phenomenological lament
William Croft--Typology and linguistic theory in the past decade: A personal view
Guglielmo Cinque--A note on linguistic theory and typology
Juliette Blevins--The importance of typology in explaining recurrent sound patterns
Matthew Baerman and Greville G. Corbett--Linguistic typology: Morphology
Martin Haspelmath--Pre-established categories don't exist: Consequences for language description and typology
Frederick J. Newmeyer--Linguistic typology requires crosslinguistic formal categories
Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Martine Vanhove, and Peter Koch--Typological approaches to lexical semantics
Hilary Chappell, Li Ming, and Alain Peyraube--Chinese linguistics and typology: The state of the art
Dan I. Slobin and Melissa Bowerman--Interfaces between linguistic typology and child language research

***

Larry M. Hyman, Johanna Nichols, and Lynn Nichols--Typology in American linguistics: An appraisal of the field
Johanna Nichols--What, if anything, is typology?
Balthasar Bickel--Typology in the 21st century: Major current developments
Robert D. Van Valin, Jr.--Some speculation about the reason for the lesser status of typology in the USA as opposed to Europe
Lynn Nichols--Methodology and the empirical base of typology
Larry M. Hyman--Where's phonology in typology?
Maria Polinsky and Robert Kluender--Linguistic typology and theory construction: Common challenges ahead
Mark C. Baker and Jim McCloskey--On the relationship of typology to theoretical syntax
Joan Bresnan--A few lessons from typology


Linguistic Typology 11-2 (2007)

Articles

Konstantin Pozdniakov and Guillaume Segerer -- Similar Place Avoidance: A statistical universal
Marc Donohue -- Word order in Austronesian from north to south and west to east
Eric W. Holman, Christian Schulze, Dietrich Stauffer, and Søren Wichmann -- On the relation between structural diversity and geographical distance among languages: Observations and computer simulations

Book Reviews

John Nerbonne -- Language Classification by Numbers, by April McMahon and Robert McMahon
Claire Bowern -- Language Classification by Numbers, by April McMahon and Robert McMahon
Elena Maslova -- The Growth and Maintenance of Linguistic Complexity, by Östen Dahl

Obituary

Jürgen Rischel, 1934-2007: Linguistic explorer with typological breadth (Michael Fortescue)


Linguistic Typology 11-3 (2007)

Articles

Sally Rice and Kaori Kabata -- Crosslinguistic grammaticalization patterns of the ALLATIVE
Brigitte Pakendorf and Ewa Schalley -- From possibility to prohibition: A rare grammaticalization pathway
Nicholas Evans, Alice Gaby, and Rachel Nordlinger -- Valency mismatches and the coding of reciprocity in Australian languages

Book Reviews

Gilbert Lazard -- Introduction à la typologie linguistique, by Jack Feuillet
Tatiana Nikitina -- Nominalization/Verbalization, by Andrej Malchukov
Rachel Nordlinger -- A Grammar of Jingulu, by Robert Pensalfini