Download or read book Language Typology 1988 written by Winfred P. Lehmann and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the third volume of papers yielded from the annual Linguistic Typology symposia inaugurated by the International Research and Exchange Board. The volume deals with an area of linguistics in which scholars of the USSR have made notable contributions and makes available to the West at least one segment of Soviet historical linguistics. This publication hopes to extend our knowledge of peoples of the present and the past through improved understanding of their languages and the texts they have produced.