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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
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Different models, different assumptions, different findings: commentary on “Replication and methodological robustness in quantitative typology” by Becker and Guzmán Naranjo15
From aspect to information structure: Non-aspectual functions of change of state markers in Austronesian and beyond15
Grammar Highlights 202414
Embracing uncertainty, and the multifaceted soul of linguistic typology: commentary on “Replication and methodological robustness in quantitative typology” by Becker and Guzmán Naranjo10
Towards a phonological typology of the Kalahari Basin Area languages8
Investigating the ‘what’, ‘where’ and ‘why’ of global phonological typology8
Specialization and finiteness (a)symmetry in imperative negation: with a comparison to standard negation6
Frontmatter6
Headless relative clauses with a gap: a typological trait of Mesoamerican languages5
Lee, Nala H: A Grammar of Modern Baba Malay5
The value of replication: commentary on “Replication and methodological robustness in quantitative typology” by Becker and Guzmán Naranjo4
Grammar Highlights 20234
Place typology and evolution of implosives in Indo-Aryan languages3
John Haiman3
Lawyer, Lewis C. 2021. A grammar of Patwin. Studies in the Native Languages of the Americas2
Standard negation: the curious case of South America2
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Review of Linlin Sun ‘Flexibility in the parts-of-speech system of classical Chinese’2
Some comments on robustness in comparative grammar research: commentary on “Replication and methodological robustness in quantitative typology” by Becker and Guzmán Naranjo2
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A typology of the exophoric functions of Malayo-Polynesian demonstratives2
Sampling matters: commentary on “Replication and methodological robustness in quantitative typology” by Becker and Guzmán Naranjo2
The evolution of gender and number agreement in the noun phrase2
The expression of quantity in Oneida: a study in syntactic and semantic variation2
Languages in prehistory: approaching the unknown1
The typological frequency of consonants is highly predictive of their order of acquisition in English1
Pacchiarotti, S. & F. Zúñiga: Applicative Morphology. Neglected Syntactic and Non-syntactic Functions1
Phonotacticon: a cross-linguistic phonotactic database1
The ubiquity of word-internal pauses1
The over-representation of phonological features in basic vocabulary doesn’t replicate when controlling for spatial and phylogenetic effects1
Number in the world’s languages. A comparative handbook1
Good enough for Galton, and much more: commentary on “Replication and methodological robustness in quantitative typology” by Becker and Guzmán Naranjo1
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Word prosody of African versus European-origin words in Afro-European creoles1
Review of: Polinsky, Maria (ed.). 2021. Oxford handbook of the languages of the Caucasus1
Progress or regress in typology: a rebuttal of Plank (2026)1
Statistical signal versus areal/universal/genealogical pressure: commentary on “Replication and methodological robustness in quantitative typology” by Becker and Guzmán Naranjo1
Semantically negative adverbial clause-linkage: ‘let alone’ constructions, expletive negation, and theoretical implications1
Iconic features in nominal reduplication1
Katarzyna Janic & Alena Witzlack-Makarevich: Antipassive: typology, diachrony and related constructions1
A sampling technique for worldwide comparisons of language contact scenarios1
Gender, number and person: a three-way interaction1
Replication, robustness and the angst of false positives: a timely target article and its multifaceted comments1
Word formation patterns in the perception domain: a typological study of cross-modal semantic associations1
All about ablaut: a typology of ablaut reduplicative structures0
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Grammar highlights 20210
The rise of ternary quantity and its alignment with laryngeal articulations0
An obituary of Ian Maddieson0
An experimentalist’s perspective on replicability in typology: commentary on “Replication and methodological robustness in quantitative typology” by Becker and Guzmán Naranjo0
Singular-plural verb stem alternation: uncovering global and local drivers of typological variation0
Reviewer Acknowledgement0
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Bootstrap co-occurrence networks of consonants and the Basic Consonant Inventory0
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The interaction of irrealis markers and blocking effects in counterfactual conditionals: theoretical implications0
The interaction of affix size, type and shape: a cross-linguistic study0
Baniwa classifiers as predictors of upcoming nouns0
A word order typology of adnominal person0
Typology re-done: Greenberg Nos. 37, 45, 340
Diachronic phonological typology: understanding inventory structure through sound change dynamics0
The interplay of contrast markers (‘but’), selectives (“topic markers”) and word order in the fuzzy oppositive contrast domain0
Objects as human bodies: cross-linguistic colexifications between words for body parts and objects0
Stephen C. Levinson: A Grammar of Yélî Dnye: The Papuan language of Rossel Island0
Grammar highlights 20220
Encoding of nominal predication constructions: a typological investigation in verb-initial languages0
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Current research in phonological typology0
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Serial verbs and minimal markers0
A typology of positional differential argument marking0
Authors’ response to “Replication and methodological robustness in quantitative typology”0
Roberto Zariquiey and Pilar M. Valenzuela: The Grammar of Body-Part Expressions. A View from the Americas0
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On the comparability of prosodic categories: why ‘stress’ is difficult0
Echo answers0
Replication and methodological robustness in quantitative typology0
Direct speech, silent pauses, speech verbs, and basic word order: a comparative corpus study of 12 languages0
Refining explanation in Evolutionary Phonology: macro-typologies and targeted typologies in action0
Directionality in the psych alternation: a quantitative cross-linguistic study0
On the expression of mistaken beliefs in Australian languages0
Towards a new typology of comparative constructions in East Asian languages0
Replicability all the way up: commentary on “Replication and methodological robustness in quantitative typology” by Becker and Guzmán Naranjo0
A cross-linguistic comparison of reference across five signed languages0
The Pahoturi River language family, with special reference to its verbal puzzles0
Commentary: Replication, robustness or methodological competition?0
Beyond mutual exclusion: evolutionary pathways of classifiers and number marking0
The prosodic foot beyond prosodic prominence: a preliminary survey0
Geospatial effects on phonological complexity in the world’s languages0
Canonical phonology and criterial conflicts: relating and resolving four dilemmas of phonological typology0
Estimating areal effects in typology: a case study of African phoneme inventories0
Weak theories and robustness: commentary on “Replication and methodological robustness in quantitative typology” by Becker and Guzmán Naranjo0
Open research requires open mindedness: commentary on “Replication and methodological robustness in quantitative typology” by Becker and Guzmán Naranjo0
Establishing the limits between polarity sensitivity, negative polarity and negative concord0
Differential object marking in Western Malayo-Polynesian symmetrical voice languages0
Levshina, Natalia: Communicative Efficiency: Language Structure and Use0
Estimative constructions in cross-linguistic perspective0
Frequent violation of the sonority sequencing principle in hundreds of languages: how often and by which sequences?0
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What is ‘advanced statistical modelling’?: commentary on “Replication and methodological robustness in quantitative typology” by Becker and Guzmán Naranjo0
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