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Teacher
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CERBASI DONATO
(syllabus)
Textbook: Edith A. Moravcsik, “Introducing Language Typology”, Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Chapter 1 - What is language typology? Goals, Tools (Statement types, Language samples, Data Sources).
Chapter 2 – Lexical typology (Introduction, Words for body parts, Kinship terms, Personal pronouns, Words for numbers, Antonymic adjectives, Words for colors).
Chapter 3 – Syntactic typology (Introduction, The choice of words and word forms, The order of words, Syntactic categories).
Chapter 4 – Morphological typology (Introduction, The choice of morphemes and morpheme forms, The order of morphemes, Morphological categories).
Chapter 6 – Historical change (The Genesis of articles, Word order change).
(reference books)
Edith A. Moravcsik, “Introducing Language Typology”, Cambridge University Press, 2013. The paperback edition is cheaper. Chapters 5 and 7 are excluded; chapter 6 must be studied only until page 209.
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Università Roma Tre