We review a number of recent studies that have identified either correlations between
different linguistic features (eg, implicational universals) or correlations between linguistic …

This third edition of Miriam Meyerhoff's highly successful textbook provides a solid, up-to-
date appreciation of the interdisciplinary nature of the field and covers foundation issues …

Talk of linguistic universals has given cognitive scientists the impression that languages are
all built to a common pattern. In fact, there are vanishingly few universals of language in the …

It is usually assumed that modern language is a recent phenomenon, coinciding with the
emergence of modern humans themselves. Many assume as well that this is the result of a …

Many languages have morphosyntactic systems that impose a classification on their nominal
lexicon. The nature of these systems varies widely, ranging from large systems of lexico …

Understanding how and why language subsystems differ in their evolutionary dynamics is a
fundamental question for historical and comparative linguistics. One key dynamic is the rate …

Although the comparative method has been applied to a range of African language families,
these have received little coverage in general textbooks. The present monograph was …

The number of languages spoken on the planet has oscillated up and down throughout the
history of mankind. 1 Different social factors operate in opposite ways, some resulting in the …

This book offers reconstructions of various syntactic properties of Proto-Germanic, including
verb position in main clauses, the syntax of the wh-system, and the (non-) occurrence of null …

In creolist circles, there has been aa long-standing debate whether creoles differ structurally
from non-creole languages and thus would form a special class of languages with specific …