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Balthasar Bickel

Typology in the 21st century: Major current developments

1. Typology as a discipline

In the past century, typology was mostly used as an alternative method of pursuing one of the same goals as generative grammar: to determine the limits of possible human languages and, thereby, to contribute to a universal theory of grammar. The paradigm result was the absolute universal law that would rule out as linguistically impossible what would seem logically imaginable, e.g., a language with a gender distinction exclusively in the 1st person singular.

Linguistic Typology, Walter de Gruyter

Print ISSN: 1430-0532
Volume: 11, 07/2007
Pages: 239 - 251

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