''Typological Studies in Language'' (or ''TSL'') is a
series of books
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published for academics in
linguistic typology
Linguistic typology (or language typology) is a field of linguistics that studies and classifies languages according to their structural features to allow their comparison. Its aim is to describe and explain the structural diversity and the co ...
by
John Benjamins Publishing Company
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since 1982.
Joseph H. Greenberg
Joseph Harold Greenberg (May 28, 1915 – May 7, 2001) was an American linguist, known mainly for his work concerning linguistic typology and the genetic classification of languages.
Life Early life and education
Joseph Greenberg was born on M ...
was honorary editor and
Talmy Givón general editor at the inception of the series.
Michael Noonan was general editor from 1995 to 2009, being succeeded by
Spike Gildea.
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]LINGUIST List
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br>announcement
24 March 2009.
See also
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Typology
Typology is the study of types or the systematic classification of the types of something according to their common characteristics. Typology is the act of finding, counting and classification facts with the help of eyes, other senses and logic. Ty ...
Notes and references
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Bibliography
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Hopper, Paul J. (editor). ''Tense-Aspect: between Semantics and Pragmatics; containing the contributions to a symposium on tense and aspect, held at UCLA, May 1979''. TSL 1. 1982.
*
Givón, Talmy (editor). ''
Topic Continuity in Discourse''. TSL 3. 1983.
* Givón, Talmy and
Masayoshi Shibatani. ''Syntactic Complexity: Diachrony, Acquisition, Neuro-Cognition, Evolution''. TSL 85. 2009.
External links
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Academic works about linguistics
Books on linguistic typology
John Benjamins Publishing Company books
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