TY  - RPRT
A1  - Bickel, Balthasar
T1  - What is typology? - a short note
N2  - It is often assumed that the goal of typology is to define the notion ‘possible human language’. This view, which I call the Universalist Typology view is shared, for example, by virtually all contributors to Bynon & Shibatani’s 1995 volume Approaches to Language Typology, and by Moravscik in her review of this volume in Linguistic Typology 1 (p.105). In the following I claim that this assumption is fundamentally mistaken. To clarify the theoretical status of what is meant by ‘possible human language’, I argue here for a distinction between typological theory (theoretical typology) and grammatical theory (theoretical syntax and theoretical morphology) as distinct subdisciplines of linguistics.
KW  - Sprachtypologie
Y1  - 2001
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/15126
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1160527
UR  - http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~bickel/research/papers/manifesto.pdf
IS  - Draft
PB  - Univ.
CY  - Leipzig
ER  -