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今日发布精选集第26期，主讲人威廉·克罗夫特 (William Croft)，讲座题目“What is typology got to do with analyzing your language?“，直播时间为2021年9月8日。视频英文字幕为本公号后期制作，限于精力，未经逐字校对，敬请谅解。本次视频讲座主持人为巴西语言学会会长 Miguel Oliveira Jr.
威廉 ·克罗夫特 简介
William Croft (1956-) is an American professor of linguistics at the University of New Mexico, United States. From 1994 to 2005 he was successively research fellow, lecturer, reader and professor in Linguistics at the University of Manchester, UK. He is the inventor of and advocate for radical construction grammar, which among other things uses box-diagrams to compare and contrast the grammatical features of different natural languages. He is considered an influential scholar in the fields of functional and cognitive linguistics.
讲座英文摘要
Typology uncovers universals of language through cross-linguistic comparison; many such universals have been found since Greenberg’s word order universals. But what do typological universals have to do with analyzing a single language, such as your native language, or a language you are doing fieldwork on? After all, analyzing the syntactic structure of a single language is based on distributional analysis, the crisscrossing patterns of occurrence of words in constructions (and of smaller constructions in larger constructions). Typology has to compare languages in other ways, through meaning and through cross-linguistically valid formal properties of syntactic structure. In this talk, I will show how the analysis of the syntax of a single language and the study of typological universals are part and parcel of the same theoretical enterprise.
讲座视频
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