in german, a relative clause is marked by relative pronoun, which agrees withtheir head noun in gender and number. however, relative clauses in farsi arealways introduced by using a conjunction “ke”. this difference could be iranianand german learners when learning languages, german and farsi to confrontdifficulties. the present study focuses on relativisation strategies based ontypological ana...

In research on unfavourable a t t i tudes towards ou tgroups , the related favourable a t t i tude towards the ingroup is generally ignored. Sum ner (1906) called the presence of both re lated a t t i tudes e thnocentr ism. Since then only a small am oun t of empirical research has been dedica ted to this theme. Based on survey-data from a representa t ive sample of Dutch citizcns ( N = 1,799) ...

For more than 20 years, in France as in many other countries, the number of pedestrians killed in road accidents has tended to decrease. The stakes remain high, however : 1,126 pedestrians killed in France in 1994, and this user category is particularly vulnerable in accidents. To further our knowledge of pedestrian accidents, an analysis of data supplied in reports drawn up by the police force...

1. Introduction. It is easy to show that contact-induced change can have a profound effect on the typological profile of the receiving language. Probably the most obvious examples , and also the ones that are easiest to find, are changes in basic sentential word order. These are especially striking because it is word order features that have attracted the most attention in the typological liter...

The purpose of this paper was to review the theoretical underpinnings, major concepts, and methods of the typological approach. It was argued that the typological approach offers a systematic, empirically rigorous and reliable way to synthesize the nomothetic variable-centered approach with the idiographic case-centered approach. Recent advances in cluster analysis validation make it a promisin...

43 cases of sound-symbolic palatalization were collected in a typological survey of babytalk registers, diminutive constructions, and other sound symbolic systems. Analysis of the typological trends and language particular examples reveals important differences between soundsymbolic expressive palatalization and phonologically motivated palatalization. We propose that the facts of sound-symboli...

In this paper, we present an application for formal concept analysis (FCA) by showing how it can help construct a semantic map for a lexical typological study. We show that FCA captures typological regularities, so that concept lattices automatically built from linguistic data appear to be even more informative than traditional semantic maps. While sometimes this informativeness causes unreadab...

Ernst Mayr’s typological/population distinction is a conceptual thread that runs throughout much of his work in systematics, evolutionary biology, and the history and philosophy of biology. Mayr himself claims that typological thinking originated in the philosophy of Plato and that population thinking was first introduced by Charles Darwin and field naturalists. A more proximate origin of the t...