10.1515/lingty-2016-0008
https://zenodo.org/records/1236849
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Haspelmath, Martin
Martin
Haspelmath
0000-0003-2100-8493
Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
The challenge of making language description and comparison mutually beneficial
Zenodo
2016
comparative concept, language description
2016-04-29
https://zenodo.org/communities/eu
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Here I argue that the distinction between comparative concepts and descriptive categories helps language describers and typologists to benefit from each other because describers are free to set up their own categories, typologists are free to define their own concepts, comparison need not involve complete systems, and interlinear translation can be either based on comparative concepts or descriptive categories. A similar distinction also exists in other disciplines that deal with cultural concepts.
European Commission
10.13039/501100000780
670985
Form-frequency correspondences in grammar