Despite earlier work by Trubetzkoy, Jakobson and Greenberg, phonological typology is often underrepresented in typology textbooks. At the same time, most phonol

This book provides an overview of phonological typology: the study of how sounds are distributed across the languages of the world and why they display these di

Linguistic typology identifies both how languages vary and what they all have in common. This Handbook provides a state-of-the art survey of the aims and method

This textbook provides an introduction to language typology which assumes minimal prior knowledge of linguistics.