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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
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From aspect to information structure: Non-aspectual functions of change of state markers in Austronesian and beyond20
How a West African language becomes North African, and vice versa16
Investigating the ‘what’, ‘where’ and ‘why’ of global phonological typology12
Towards a phonological typology of the Kalahari Basin Area languages9
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Specialization and finiteness (a)symmetry in imperative negation: with a comparison to standard negation8
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)7
Headless relative clauses with a gap: a typological trait of Mesoamerican languages4
Grammar Highlights 20234
Measuring and assessing indeterminacy and variation in the morphology-syntax distinction4
Lawyer, Lewis C. 2021. A grammar of Patwin. Studies in the Native Languages of the Americas3
Standard negation: the curious case of South America3
Place typology and evolution of implosives in Indo-Aryan languages3
Areal patterns and colexifications of colour terms in the languages of Africa3
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The typological frequency of consonants is highly predictive of their order of acquisition in English2
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Gender, number and person: a three-way interaction2
The expression of quantity in Oneida: a study in syntactic and semantic variation2
Review of Linlin Sun ‘Flexibility in the parts-of-speech system of classical Chinese’2
Universal and macro-areal patterns in the lexicon1
Pacchiarotti, S. & F. Zúñiga (eds.). 2022. Applicative Morphology. Neglected Syntactic and Non-syntactic Functions. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. 477 pages. Print ISBN: 9783110777857.1
A sampling technique for worldwide comparisons of language contact scenarios1
Word prosody of African versus European-origin words in Afro-European creoles1
Katarzyna Janic & Alena Witzlack-Makarevich: Antipassive: typology, diachrony and related constructions1
Review of: Polinsky, Maria (ed.). 2021. Oxford handbook of the languages of the Caucasus1
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Phonotacticon: a cross-linguistic phonotactic database1
Statistical bias control in typology1
Semantically negative adverbial clause-linkage: ‘let alone’ constructions, expletive negation, and theoretical implications0
The rise of ternary quantity and its alignment with laryngeal articulations0
Word formation patterns in the perception domain: a typological study of cross-modal semantic associations0
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Kinship terminologies reveal ancient contact zone in the Hindu Kush0
Differential object marking in Western Malayo-Polynesian symmetrical voice languages0
Singular-plural verb stem alternation: uncovering global and local drivers of typological variation0
Replication and methodological robustness in quantitative typology0
Grammar highlights 20210
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The general noun-modifying clause construction beyond Eurasia0
The Pahoturi River language family, with special reference to its verbal puzzles0
A cross-linguistic comparison of reference across five signed languages0
Red, black, and white hearts: ‘heart’, ‘liver’, and ‘lungs’ in typological and areal perspective0
Towards a typology of middle voice systems0
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Directionality in the psych alternation: a quantitative cross-linguistic study0
Old Japanese in a panchronic perspective0
The interaction of irrealis markers and blocking effects in counterfactual conditionals: theoretical implications0
Bootstrap co-occurrence networks of consonants and the Basic Consonant Inventory0
Similarity of mirative and contrastive focus: three parameters for describing attention markers0
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Appositive possession in Ainu and around the Pacific0
The prosodic foot beyond prosodic prominence: a preliminary survey0
A typology of consonant-inventory gaps0
Encoding of nominal predication constructions: a typological investigation in verb-initial languages0
Cross-linguistic constraints and lineage-specific developments in the semantics of cutting and breaking in Japonic and Germanic0
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Establishing the limits between polarity sensitivity, negative polarity and negative concord0
Refining explanation in Evolutionary Phonology: macro-typologies and targeted typologies in action0
Towards a new typology of comparative constructions in East Asian languages0
Challenges of sampling and how phylogenetic comparative methods help: with a case study of the Pama-Nyungan laminal contrast0
Jędrzejowski, Łukasz and Przemysław Staniewski: The linguistics of olfaction: Typological and diachronic approaches to synchronic diversity0
Current research in phonological typology0
Stephen C. Levinson: A Grammar of Yélî Dnye: The Papuan language of Rossel Island0
Levshina, Natalia: Communicative Efficiency: Language Structure and Use0
Sitting and talking together: packaging meaning into verbs with the neighbors0
Canonical phonology and criterial conflicts: relating and resolving four dilemmas of phonological typology0
Frequent violation of the sonority sequencing principle in hundreds of languages: how often and by which sequences?0
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Roberto Zariquiey and Pilar M. Valenzuela (eds). 2022. The Grammar of Body-Part Expressions. A View from the Americas0
Object and handling handshapes in 11 sign languages: towards a typology of the iconic use of the hands0
Towards a typology of predicative demonstratives0
Zariquiey, Roberto, Masayoshi Shibatani and David W. Fleck: Nominalization in languages of the Americas0
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A desmemic architecture for autotyp: a review article0
On the expression of mistaken beliefs in Australian languages0
A word order typology of adnominal person0
Echo answers0
Diachronic phonological typology: understanding inventory structure through sound change dynamics0
Introduction to special issue on areal typology of lexico-semantics0
Objects as human bodies: cross-linguistic colexifications between words for body parts and objects0
Patterns of persistence and diffusibility in the European lexicon0
The interplay of contrast markers (‘but’), selectives (“topic markers”) and word order in the fuzzy oppositive contrast domain0
Baring the bones: the lexico-semantic association of bone with strength in Melanesia and the study of colexification0
All about ablaut: a typology of ablaut reduplicative structures0
The interaction of affix size, type and shape: a cross-linguistic study0
On the comparability of prosodic categories: why ‘stress’ is difficult0
Estimative constructions in cross-linguistic perspective0
Estimating areal effects in typology: a case study of African phoneme inventories0
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