KnowraLinguistic typologyLinked fromLinked fromThe 34 pages that link to Linguistic typology, each with the reason it gives.All 34Broader topic 1Related 18Narrower topic 9Compared with 6PronounNarrower topic: Languages differ in pronoun inventories, distinctions, and rules for leaving pronouns unspoken.Altaic languagesNarrower topic: Typological resemblance can occur without proving that languages share a historical ancestor.Ergative–absolutive alignmentNarrower topic: Comparative typology places ergative alignment among recurring ways languages organize clauses.Glottalic theoryNarrower topic: Typological rarity of the traditional stop system motivated a search for another reconstruction.Word orderNarrower topic: Typologists compare constituent orders to identify cross-language patterns.Future tenseNarrower topic: Cross-language comparison reveals that future time is not marked by one universal grammatical pattern.Johanna NicholsNarrower topic: Nichols helped establish typology as a way to compare languages beyond family relationships.Marianne MithunNarrower topic: Mithun uses cross-language comparison to situate Indigenous language structures within human linguistic diversity.Robert M. W. DixonNarrower topic: Dixon uses cross-linguistic comparison to assess claims about universal grammatical patterns.