Statements (103)
| Predicate | Object |
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| gptkbp:instanceOf |
linguistics subfield
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| gptkbp:analyzes |
grammatical categories
morphological systems phonological systems syntactic structures word order |
| gptkbp:appliesTo |
all human languages
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| gptkbp:contrastsWith |
historical linguistics
comparative linguistics sociolinguistics areal linguistics language genealogy |
| gptkbp:focusesOn |
structural features of languages
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| gptkbp:goal |
explain language diversity
find language universals identify patterns across languages |
| https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label |
language typology
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| gptkbp:includes |
gptkb:morphological_typology
phonological typology semantic typology syntactic typology |
| gptkbp:relatedTo |
gptkb:Joseph_Greenberg
gptkb:Greenberg's_universals gptkb:World_Atlas_of_Language_Structures linguistic theory |
| gptkbp:studies |
intonation patterns
ergativity vowel harmony inflectional morphology relative clauses number systems agglutinative languages argument structure noun classes subject-object-verb order derivational morphology adjective classes adpositional systems adverbial systems alignment systems analytic languages applicative constructions case marking causative constructions classification of languages clause combining color terms consonant inventories definiteness marking demonstrative systems evidentiality focus marking fusional languages gender systems head-final languages head-initial languages imperative forms interrogative particles isolating languages kinship terms lexical typology mood systems motion verbs negation particles negation strategies numeral systems object-subject-verb order object-verb-subject order passive constructions phonotactics politeness systems polysynthetic languages possession marking predicate types pronoun systems question formation reciprocal constructions reflexive constructions semantic fields serial verb constructions spatial reference systems speech act marking stress systems subject-verb-object order switch-reference syllable structure synthetic languages temporal reference systems tense-aspect systems tone systems topic marking valency-changing operations verb classes verb-object-subject order verb-subject-object order word formation processes |
| gptkbp:uses |
language universals
cross-linguistic comparison implicational universals |
| gptkbp:bfsParent |
gptkb:Linguistics
gptkb:Lexical_Functional_Grammar gptkb:Language:_An_Introduction_to_the_Study_of_Speech |
| gptkbp:bfsLayer |
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