edited by
Bohumil Palek
Prague, August 20-22, 1966
Copyright © by Charles University Press, 1967
Karolinum - Ovocný trh š, 116 36 Prague 1, Czech Republic
Table of Contents
Preface
Keynote speaches:
Hansjakob Seiler (Universitv of Cologne):
On the present state of larrguage universals research I
Christian Lehman (University of Bielefeld):
Person prominence vs. relation prominence 17
Jiří V. Neustupný (Osaka University):
Typology in Prague: The legacy of Vladimir Skalička 29
Bernard Comrie (University of Southern California):
Some prablem.s in the theory and typology of numeral.systems 31
Norbert Corver & Henk van Riemsdijk (Tilburg University):
The position of the head and the domain of scrambling 57
Osamu Fujimura (The Ohio State University):
Syllable features and temporal structure of speech 91
Universals and prototypical concepts
E..Wyn Roberts (Simon Fraser University, Canada):
Recursior, linear order, and the classification of linguistic units 112
Per Durst-Andersen (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark):
Towards a theory of linguistic supertypes: Speaker-based, hearer-based, and reality-based languages 125
Michael Cysouw (University of Nijmegen):
Design and granunaticalisation 153
Dik Bakker (University of Amsterdam)
The balance between flexibility and consistency: A universal or euroversal tendency? I 64
Philippe Bourdin (Universilé Paris X and York University, Toronto):
On Goal-bias across languages: modal, configurational and orientational parameters 185
Charles F. Carlson (Radio Free EuropelRadio Liberty Prague)
A typological study of spatial deixis in Turkic and Finno-Ugric 219
Eugene H. Casad (Summer Institute of Linguistics)
Many goofs: Exploiting a nonprototypical verb structure 233
Werner Drossard (University of Cologne)
Polysynthesis and polysynthetic languages in comparative perspective 251
Typology and diachrony
Karl-Horst Schmidt (Bonn University):
Problems of diachronic typology
Helena Kurzová (South Bohemian University)
Morphosyntactic processes in Europe 279
Brigitte L.M. Bauer (The University of Nijmegen):
The adjective in Italic and Romunce: Genetic or areal factors affecting word-order patterns? 295
Noun phrase structures
Edith Moravesik (University of Wisconsirr-Milwaukee)
Parts and wholes in the Hungarian noun phrase - a typological study 307
Ewa Willim (Jagiellonian University of Cracow):
On N-Movement in Polish noun phrases 325
Andolin Eguzkitza (University of the Basque country Vitoria-Gasteiz)
Indirect questions and other adnominals in the grammar of Basque 332
Thomas M. Gross (Dôshisha Womens College, Kyóto):
“To be or not to be ” T ypological question of Japanese Adjectives 351
Nikolai O. Kirsanov (Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg):
A language to describe the morphology of natural and artificial languages 365
Aida Sadykova (Kuzan Pedagogical University):
A typological.studv of the semantic component of noun compounds in Kuzan Tatar and English 375
Jewdet Suleymanov (Kazan State University):
Towards a definition of Tatar cases via the structural functional morphemic model 387
Word order typology
Martin Ehala (Talinn Pedagogical University):
Chance and necessity in word order typology 396
Eva Koktová (Charles University, Prague)
Word order and typology 405
Vera I. Podlesskaya (Russian Academy of Sciences)
Typolgy of clause linkage: Grammatical marking in conditional constructions 421
László Honti (University of Groningen):
Zur Frage nach dem Zusammenhang zwischen der Wortfolge im Satz and der Abfolge von Suffixes (am Beispiel der uralischen Sprachen) 433
Jiři Nekvapil (Charles University, Prague)
Some remarks on item orderings in Czech conversation: The issue of pre-requests 444
Ladislav Nebeský (Charles University, Prague):
Art analysis of syntactic formulae 451
Pavel Novák (Charles University, Prague):
Relationships between homonymy and word order in a “free” word order language (Czech) 463
Bohumil Palek (Charles University, Prague):
Interference of item-orderings 470
Alik Gilmullin (Kazan State University):
Syntax complexity: left-branched languages 487
Phonetics
Ludmila G. Zubkova (People’s Friendship University of Russia):
The typological determinant and sound structure of language 496
Tatiana I. Paleeva (People’s Friendship University of Russia):
Iconicity/isomorphism in the accentual structure of word formation chains in Russian 507
Elena A. Krasina (People’s Friendship University of Russia):
The dichotomy of unmarked-marked word order in Russian sentences of characterisation and existence 513
Semantics
Ronaldo Lima ( Universilé Fédérale de Santa Catarinca, Brasil):
La hiérarchie dans le modčle des graphes conceptuels de Sowa 523
Cláudia Borges de Faveri (Université Fédérale de Santa Catarina, Brasil):
Les relations et les concepts dans les réseaux sémantiques 531