Chapter All typologies leak Predicates of change in Lowland Chontal of Oaxaca

• Egile nagusia: O'Connor, Loretta (auth)
• Beste egile batzuk: Epps, Patience (Argitaratzailea), Arkhipov, Alexandre (Argitaratzailea)
• Formatua: Baliabide elektronikoa Liburu kapitulua
• Hizkuntza: ingelesa
• Argitaratua: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2009
• Gaiak: linguistics; Typology; Linguistic Description
• Sarrera elektronikoa: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

In his (1921) book, Language, Sapir made the famous observation, "All grammars leak" (38). By this he meant that within the systematic paradigms, rules and routinized patterns of any grammar, we always find a few irregularities and surprises. The same can be said for linguistic typologies....