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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
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How a West African language becomes North African, and vice versa22
Investigating the ‘what’, ‘where’ and ‘why’ of global phonological typology21
From aspect to information structure: Non-aspectual functions of change of state markers in Austronesian and beyond12
Towards a phonological typology of the Kalahari Basin Area languages11
Specialization and finiteness (a)symmetry in imperative negation: with a comparison to standard negation9
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Headless relative clauses with a gap: a typological trait of Mesoamerican languages5
Measuring and assessing indeterminacy and variation in the morphology-syntax distinction4
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)4
Areal patterns and colexifications of colour terms in the languages of Africa4
Place typology and evolution of implosives in Indo-Aryan languages3
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Lawyer, Lewis C. 2021. A grammar of Patwin. Studies in the Native Languages of the Americas3
Standard negation: the curious case of South America3
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The typological frequency of consonants is highly predictive of their order of acquisition in English2
Universal and macro-areal patterns in the lexicon2
Gender, number and person: a three-way interaction2
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Review of Linlin Sun ‘Flexibility in the parts-of-speech system of classical Chinese’2
Review of: Polinsky, Maria (ed.). 2021. Oxford handbook of the languages of the Caucasus1
A sampling technique for worldwide comparisons of language contact scenarios1
Katarzyna Janic & Alena Witzlack-Makarevich: Antipassive: typology, diachrony and related constructions1
Pacchiarotti, S. & F. Zúñiga: Applicative Morphology. Neglected Syntactic and Non-syntactic Functions1
A desmemic architecture for autotyp: a review article1
A typology of consonant-inventory gaps1
The expression of quantity in Oneida: a study in syntactic and semantic variation1
Statistical bias control in typology1
Kinship terminologies reveal ancient contact zone in the Hindu Kush1
Zariquiey, Roberto, Masayoshi Shibatani and David W. Fleck: Nominalization in languages of the Americas1
Word prosody of African versus European-origin words in Afro-European creoles1
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Phonotacticon: a cross-linguistic phonotactic database1
Introduction to special issue on areal typology of lexico-semantics0
Directionality in the psych alternation: a quantitative cross-linguistic study0
Jędrzejowski, Łukasz and Przemysław Staniewski: The linguistics of olfaction: Typological and diachronic approaches to synchronic diversity0
Challenges of sampling and how phylogenetic comparative methods help: with a case study of the Pama-Nyungan laminal contrast0
The general noun-modifying clause construction beyond Eurasia0
Current research in phonological typology0
A cross-linguistic comparison of reference across five signed languages0
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Baring the bones: the lexico-semantic association of bone with strength in Melanesia and the study of colexification0
The rise of ternary quantity and its alignment with laryngeal articulations0
Cross-linguistic constraints and lineage-specific developments in the semantics of cutting and breaking in Japonic and Germanic0
Levshina, Natalia: Communicative Efficiency: Language Structure and Use0
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Roberto Zariquiey and Pilar M. Valenzuela (eds). 2022. The Grammar of Body-Part Expressions. A View from the Americas0
The interaction of irrealis markers and blocking effects in counterfactual conditionals: theoretical implications0
Object and handling handshapes in 11 sign languages: towards a typology of the iconic use of the hands0
Sitting and talking together: packaging meaning into verbs with the neighbors0
Encoding of nominal predication constructions: a typological investigation in verb-initial languages0
Replication and methodological robustness in quantitative typology0
Old Japanese in a panchronic perspective0
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Frequent violation of the sonority sequencing principle in hundreds of languages: how often and by which sequences?0
The interplay of contrast markers (‘but’), selectives (“topic markers”) and word order in the fuzzy oppositive contrast domain0
Patterns of persistence and diffusibility in the European lexicon0
Stephen C. Levinson: A Grammar of Yélî Dnye: The Papuan language of Rossel Island0
The prosodic foot beyond prosodic prominence: a preliminary survey0
A word order typology of adnominal person0
Grammar highlights 20200
On the comparability of prosodic categories: why ‘stress’ is difficult0
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Estimating areal effects in typology: a case study of African phoneme inventories0
The interaction of affix size, type and shape: a cross-linguistic study0
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Semantically negative adverbial clause-linkage: ‘let alone’ constructions, expletive negation, and theoretical implications0
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Word formation patterns in the perception domain: a typological study of cross-modal semantic associations0
Establishing the limits between polarity sensitivity, negative polarity and negative concord0
On the expression of mistaken beliefs in Australian languages0
Refining explanation in Evolutionary Phonology: macro-typologies and targeted typologies in action0
Diachronic phonological typology: understanding inventory structure through sound change dynamics0
Towards a new typology of comparative constructions in East Asian languages0
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Objects as human bodies: cross-linguistic colexifications between words for body parts and objects0
The Pahoturi River language family, with special reference to its verbal puzzles0
All about ablaut: a typology of ablaut reduplicative structures0
Canonical phonology and criterial conflicts: relating and resolving four dilemmas of phonological typology0
Towards a typology of middle voice systems0
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Red, black, and white hearts: ‘heart’, ‘liver’, and ‘lungs’ in typological and areal perspective0
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Bootstrap co-occurrence networks of consonants and the Basic Consonant Inventory0
Echo answers0
Differential object marking in Western Malayo-Polynesian symmetrical voice languages0
Similarity of mirative and contrastive focus: three parameters for describing attention markers0
Appositive possession in Ainu and around the Pacific0
Singular-plural verb stem alternation: uncovering global and local drivers of typological variation0
Estimative constructions in cross-linguistic perspective0
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