The Linguistic Typology of Templates

includes index and biblioraphy

1. Defining Template .....1 Templates: Often invoked, but Undertheorized .......1 Theoretical Context of this Study .........4 Templates as Unexpected linearity ............6 An Initial Survey of Template types .......7 Templates: A twice incoherent class of Phenomena ........22 Wastebaskets as a Tool for theory refinement ..........27 Templates as Analyses not Grammar........31 Previous work on Template Typology .................34 Typologizing templates ............38 2. A typological Description Language for Templates ..........40 The Language of Linear Stipulation ..........40 Overview of the Classificatory scheme .........46 Components .........53 Desmemes .............65 Additional Templatic Complexities ........87 Typed features structure and Templatic descriptions.........92 The Nature of Typologization in the Present Study .........97 What kind of Typological results might we Expect ......98 Implementing the Description Language in a Database ............100 Typologizing templates : Case Studies ..........104 Introduction to the Case Studies ........104 Turkish Stems .......106 Chintang Prefixes ......109 Nimboran Verbs .......117 Four Templates found in Bantu Verb stems .....130 Chechen Preverbal .............168 Serbo-Croatian je.........184 Serbo-Croation topicalization ........190 Aghem Clauses ..............191 Mande clauses .........197 Meskwaki Clauses ......203 German Clauses .........207 Two non-Templatic Desmemes in English .......211 Summary of the Case studies ...........214 4. Typologizing templates : Comparison .......216 Comparing templatic Descriptions...........216 From graphs to a Similarity Metric ...........233 Exploiting the Database to Detect Typological Universals ........251 The Feasibility of Graph - Based Typology ..........257 5. Moving Forward .......259 Next steps in the Study of Templatic Constructions ........259 Extending the Present Study ..........259 Explaining Templates ............266