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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
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From aspect to information structure: Non-aspectual functions of change of state markers in Austronesian and beyond17
Different models, different assumptions, different findings: commentary on “Replication and methodological robustness in quantitative typology” by Becker and Guzmán Naranjo14
Grammar Highlights 202410
Embracing uncertainty, and the multifaceted soul of linguistic typology: commentary on “Replication and methodological robustness in quantitative typology” by Becker and Guzmán Naranjo9
Investigating the ‘what’, ‘where’ and ‘why’ of global phonological typology8
Towards a phonological typology of the Kalahari Basin Area languages7
Specialization and finiteness (a)symmetry in imperative negation: with a comparison to standard negation6
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
Headless relative clauses with a gap: a typological trait of Mesoamerican languages4
Grammar Highlights 20234
A grammar of Ngardi3
The typological frequency of consonants is highly predictive of their order of acquisition in English2
John Haiman2
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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Gender, number and person: a three-way interaction2
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Place typology and evolution of implosives in Indo-Aryan languages2
Sampling matters: commentary on “Replication and methodological robustness in quantitative typology” by Becker and Guzmán Naranjo2
Standard negation: the curious case of South America2
A typology of the exophoric functions of Malayo-Polynesian demonstratives2
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Lawyer, Lewis C. 2021. A grammar of Patwin. Studies in the Native Languages of the Americas2
The evolution of gender and number agreement in the noun phrase2
The expression of quantity in Oneida: a study in syntactic and semantic variation2
Pacchiarotti, S. & F. Zúñiga: Applicative Morphology. Neglected Syntactic and Non-syntactic Functions1
A sampling technique for worldwide comparisons of language contact scenarios1
Iconic features in nominal reduplication1
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
Good enough for Galton, and much more: commentary on “Replication and methodological robustness in quantitative typology” by Becker and Guzmán Naranjo1
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
Katarzyna Janic & Alena Witzlack-Makarevich: Antipassive: typology, diachrony and related constructions1
The over-representation of phonological features in basic vocabulary doesn’t replicate when controlling for spatial and phylogenetic effects1
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Roberto Zariquiey and Pilar M. Valenzuela: The Grammar of Body-Part Expressions. A View from the Americas1
Progress or regress in typology: a rebuttal of Plank (2026)1
Phonotacticon: a cross-linguistic phonotactic database1
The ubiquity of word-internal pauses1
Replication, robustness and the angst of false positives: a timely target article and its multifaceted comments1
Number in the world’s languages. A comparative handbook1
Languages in prehistory: approaching the unknown1
Word formation patterns in the perception domain: a typological study of cross-modal semantic associations1
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Reviewer Acknowledgement0
Estimating areal effects in typology: a case study of African phoneme inventories0
Encoding of nominal predication constructions: a typological investigation in verb-initial languages0
Baniwa classifiers as predictors of upcoming nouns0
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Refining explanation in Evolutionary Phonology: macro-typologies and targeted typologies in action0
The interaction of affix size, type and shape: a cross-linguistic study0
A word order typology of adnominal person0
Replicability all the way up: commentary on “Replication and methodological robustness in quantitative typology” by Becker and Guzmán Naranjo0
Diachronic phonological typology: understanding inventory structure through sound change dynamics0
All about ablaut: a typology of ablaut reduplicative structures0
What is ‘advanced statistical modelling’?: commentary on “Replication and methodological robustness in quantitative typology” by Becker and Guzmán Naranjo0
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A typology of positional differential argument marking0
An obituary of Ian Maddieson0
The rise of ternary quantity and its alignment with laryngeal articulations0
Serial verbs and minimal markers0
An experimentalist’s perspective on replicability in typology: commentary on “Replication and methodological robustness in quantitative typology” by Becker and Guzmán Naranjo0
Auxiliary verb constructions in Southern Bantu0
The interaction of irrealis markers and blocking effects in counterfactual conditionals: theoretical implications0
Bootstrap co-occurrence networks of consonants and the Basic Consonant Inventory0
Geospatial effects on phonological complexity in the world’s languages0
Weak theories and robustness: commentary on “Replication and methodological robustness in quantitative typology” by Becker and Guzmán Naranjo0
Replication and methodological robustness in quantitative typology0
Establishing the limits between polarity sensitivity, negative polarity and negative concord0
Echo answers0
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Directionality in the psych alternation: a quantitative cross-linguistic study0
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
Canonical phonology and criterial conflicts: relating and resolving four dilemmas of phonological typology0
The Pahoturi River language family, with special reference to its verbal puzzles0
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Beyond mutual exclusion: evolutionary pathways of classifiers and number marking0
Grammar highlights 20220
On the comparability of prosodic categories: why ‘stress’ is difficult0
The prosodic foot beyond prosodic prominence: a preliminary survey0
Authors’ response to “Replication and methodological robustness in quantitative typology”0
Open research requires open mindedness: commentary on “Replication and methodological robustness in quantitative typology” by Becker and Guzmán Naranjo0
Differential object marking in Western Malayo-Polynesian symmetrical voice languages0
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Typology re-done: Greenberg Nos. 37, 45, 340
Direct speech, silent pauses, speech verbs, and basic word order: a comparative corpus study of 12 languages0
Levshina, Natalia: Communicative Efficiency: Language Structure and Use0
The interplay of contrast markers (‘but’), selectives (“topic markers”) and word order in the fuzzy oppositive contrast domain0
Frequent violation of the sonority sequencing principle in hundreds of languages: how often and by which sequences?0
Towards a new typology of comparative constructions in East Asian languages0
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Grammar highlights 20210
On the expression of mistaken beliefs in Australian languages0
Current research in phonological typology0
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Singular-plural verb stem alternation: uncovering global and local drivers of typological variation0
Commentary: Replication, robustness or methodological competition?0
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