Many linguists recognize typology as a subfield of linguistics, but what is the precise name of this subfield?
“language typology”?
“linguistic typology”?
or maybe simply “comparative linguistics”? Continue reading
Many linguists recognize typology as a subfield of linguistics, but what is the precise name of this subfield?
“language typology”?
“linguistic typology”?
or maybe simply “comparative linguistics”? Continue reading
The following is a summary of an invited talk I presented at NoSLiP 2018 in Oslo in February 2018. I used the subtitle “Toward an IPA of morphosyntax”, echoing some remarks of an earlier post, though this is still a fairly distant goal. But in this talk I say more to motivate the need for it.
1. The general linguistics problem: Human Language is unobservable
In the 19th century, most linguists were particular linguists Continue reading