Linguistic Typology

Papers
(The median citation count of Linguistic Typology is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
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Review of: Polinsky, Maria (ed.). 2021. Oxford handbook of the languages of the Caucasus16
Reviewer Acknowledgement13
Bootstrap co-occurrence networks of consonants and the Basic Consonant Inventory12
Kinship terminologies reveal ancient contact zone in the Hindu Kush7
Measuring and assessing indeterminacy and variation in the morphology-syntax distinction7
Estimating areal effects in typology: a case study of African phoneme inventories5
Investigating the ‘what’, ‘where’ and ‘why’ of global phonological typology4
Grammar highlights 20203
Areal patterns and colexifications of colour terms in the languages of Africa3
How a West African language becomes North African, and vice versa3
Challenges of sampling and how phylogenetic comparative methods help: with a case study of the Pama-Nyungan laminal contrast3
Place typology and evolution of implosives in Indo-Aryan languages2
A desmemic architecture for autotyp: a review article2
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Diachronic phonological typology: understanding inventory structure through sound change dynamics2
From aspect to information structure: Non-aspectual functions of change of state markers in Austronesian and beyond2
Canonical phonology and criterial conflicts: relating and resolving four dilemmas of phonological typology2
Grammar highlights 20212
A cross-linguistic comparison of reference across five signed languages1
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Lawyer, Lewis C. 2021. A grammar of Patwin. Studies in the Native Languages of the Americas1
Directionality in the psych alternation: a quantitative cross-linguistic study1
Towards a phonological typology of the Kalahari Basin Area languages1
Frequent violation of the sonority sequencing principle in hundreds of languages: how often and by which sequences?1
All about ablaut: a typology of ablaut reduplicative structures1
Cross-linguistic constraints and lineage-specific developments in the semantics of cutting and breaking in Japonic and Germanic1
Similarity of mirative and contrastive focus: three parameters for describing attention markers1
A typology of consonant-inventory gaps1
Stephen C. Levinson: A Grammar of Yélî Dnye: The Papuan language of Rossel Island1
Sitting and talking together: packaging meaning into verbs with the neighbors0
Patterns of persistence and diffusibility in the European lexicon0
A sampling technique for worldwide comparisons of language contact scenarios0
Replication and methodological robustness in quantitative typology0
The prosodic foot beyond prosodic prominence: a preliminary survey0
Baring the bones: the lexico-semantic association of bone with strength in Melanesia and the study of colexification0
The interaction of affix size, type and shape: a cross-linguistic study0
Differential object marking in Western Malayo-Polynesian symmetrical voice languages0
The typological frequency of consonants is highly predictive of their order of acquisition in English0
Encoding of nominal predication constructions: a typological investigation in verb-initial languages0
Standard negation: the curious case of South America0
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Old Japanese in a panchronic perspective0
Singular-plural verb stem alternation: uncovering global and local drivers of typological variation0
The interplay of contrast markers (‘but’), selectives (“topic markers”) and word order in the fuzzy oppositive contrast domain0
Estimative constructions in cross-linguistic perspective0
Towards a new typology of comparative constructions in East Asian languages0
Statistical bias control in typology0
Red, black, and white hearts: ‘heart’, ‘liver’, and ‘lungs’ in typological and areal perspective0
Zariquiey, Roberto, Masayoshi Shibatani and David W. Fleck: Nominalization in languages of the Americas0
Introduction to special issue on areal typology of lexico-semantics0
Grammar highlights 20220
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Refining explanation in Evolutionary Phonology: macro-typologies and targeted typologies in action0
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The expression of quantity in Oneida: a study in syntactic and semantic variation0
Specialization and finiteness (a)symmetry in imperative negation: with a comparison to standard negation0
Current research in phonological typology0
The general noun-modifying clause construction beyond Eurasia0
Semantically negative adverbial clause-linkage: ‘let alone’ constructions, expletive negation, and theoretical implications0
Appositive possession in Ainu and around the Pacific0
Pacchiarotti, S. & F. Zúñiga (eds.). 2022. Applicative Morphology. Neglected Syntactic and Non-syntactic Functions. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. 477 pages. Print ISBN: 9783110777857.0
A word order typology of adnominal person0
Gender, number and person: a three-way interaction0
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Katarzyna Janic & Alena Witzlack-Makarevich: Antipassive: typology, diachrony and related constructions0
Objects as human bodies: cross-linguistic colexifications between words for body parts and objects0
Word prosody of African versus European-origin words in Afro-European creoles0
Lee, Nala H. 2022. A Grammar of Modern Baba Malay. Berlin: De Gruyter. Mouton Grammar Library [MGL] 90. ISBN 9783110744927 (hardback) 9783110745061 (pdf). 9783111358604 (paperback)0
The Pahoturi River language family, with special reference to its verbal puzzles0
Review of Linlin Sun ‘Flexibility in the parts-of-speech system of classical Chinese’0
Towards a typology of predicative demonstratives0
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Phonotacticon: a cross-linguistic phonotactic database0
Establishing the limits between polarity sensitivity, negative polarity and negative concord0
Object and handling handshapes in 11 sign languages: towards a typology of the iconic use of the hands0
The rise of ternary quantity and its alignment with laryngeal articulations0
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On the expression of mistaken beliefs in Australian languages0
Word formation patterns in the perception domain: a typological study of cross-modal semantic associations0
Roberto Zariquiey and Pilar M. Valenzuela (eds). 2022. The Grammar of Body-Part Expressions. A View from the Americas0
On the comparability of prosodic categories: why ‘stress’ is difficult0
Universal and macro-areal patterns in the lexicon0
Echo answers0
Grammar Highlights 20230
Jędrzejowski, Łukasz and Przemysław Staniewski: The linguistics of olfaction: Typological and diachronic approaches to synchronic diversity0
Headless relative clauses with a gap: a typological trait of Mesoamerican languages0
The interaction of irrealis markers and blocking effects in counterfactual conditionals: theoretical implications0
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Levshina, Natalia: Communicative Efficiency: Language Structure and Use0
Towards a typology of middle voice systems0
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