Diversity in Case and the Other Grammatical Characteristics of the Languages of Eurasia : Using The World Atlas of Language Structures

• NOSE Masahiko

  Tohoku University, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• ユーラシアの言語における格及びその他の文法特徴の多様性について : 言語構造の世界地図(WALS)を使用して
• ユーラシア ノ ゲンゴ ニ オケル カク オヨビ ソノタ ノ ブンポウ トクチョウ ノ タヨウセイ ニ ツイテ ゲンゴ コウゾウ ノ セカイ チズ WALS オ シヨウシテ

Abstract

The World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS) (Haspelmath et al. (Eds.), 2005) is a convenient tool not only for typologists but also for all linguists of all areas. WALS is a database of more than 2000 languages of the world, and contains information on some 142 linguistic features, including phonological, morphological, and syntactic features. This paper looks at certain grammatical features, for example case number and word order, of languages of Eurasia as described in WALS. This paper describes the diversity of the grammatical characteristics of these languages, while examining their common features. It was clear that the languages of Eurasia have a rich case system, SOV word order, and two types of demonstratives, and that these are different from those of standard European languages.

Journal

• The Japanese Journal of Language in Society

  The Japanese Journal of Language in Society 10 (1), 33-44, 2007

  The Japanese Association of Sociolinguistic Sciences

Keywords

• Eurasia
• case
• word order
• typology
• World Atlas of Language Structures

Details

• CRID: 1390001205772516096
• NII Article ID: 110009570131
• NII Book ID: AA11510423
• DOI: 10.19024/jajls.10.1_33
• ISSN: 21897239
• ISSN: 13443909
• NDL BIB ID: 8984846
• Web Site: https://ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp/books/R000000004-I8984846
• Text Lang: ja
• Data Source:
  • JaLC
  • NDL
  • CiNii Articles
  • KAKEN
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