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- Title
TYPOLOGICAL PECULIARITIES IN SOMALI.
- Authors
Hetzron, Robert
- Abstract
Linguistic typology has as its essential object the crosslinguistic study of what external shape some given linguistic phenomena are capable of assuming. As a corollary, it will also be established then what logically possible shapes or manifestations are excluded. Moreover, a compilation of typological facts has often led to the recognition that there may be a correlation between the formal manifestation of a certain category and the formal manifestation of another. In this article, some typologically interesting phenomena of Somali are presented. It tries to point out some peculiarities of its structure that are rare among the languages of the world, and show, in some cases, that apparent exceptions to empirically established universal laws are not real exceptions, but are secondary as evidence, for they depend on other constructions.
- Subjects
LINGUISTIC typology; LANGUAGE classification; LINGUISTICS; SENTENCES (Grammar); SOMALI language; LANGUAGE &; languages
- Publication
Folia Linguistica, 1989, Vol 23, Issue 1/2, p7
- ISSN
0165-4004
- Publication type
Article