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A note on linguistic theory and typology

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From the journal Linguistic Typology

Abstract

Let me say right away that I do not consider (“formal”) linguistic theory and linguistic typology as two separate approaches. The in-depth, abstract analysis of a certain phenomenon (say, how a restrictive relative clause is built) and the study of what variation there is concerning that phenomenon (how many ways of forming restrictive relative clauses are found across languages) are two sides of the same inquiry.


*Correspondence address:Dipartimento di Scienze del Linguaggio, Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia, Ca' Bembo, Dorsoduro 1075, 30100 Venezia, Italy

Received: 2007-01-05
Revised: 2007-02-25
Published Online: 2007-07-31
Published in Print: 2007-07-20

© Walter de Gruyter

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