Ksenia Ershova

Associate Professor
Linguistics | Psychology and Language Sciences
University College London

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LINGUIST 168 Introduction to Linguistic Typology

Lecture slides (Spring 2021; Stanford University)

These slides are unaltered from their use in class; there may be idiosyncracies and topic carryover to fit the pace of the course. Feel free to use these for your teaching needs; just reference the source. I have done my best to include proper citations in the slides, but please let me know if you spot something that needs citation, or any mistakes that should be corrected.

What is typology? Goals and methodology

• Lecture 1: What is typology?
• Lecture 2: Methodology
• Lecture 3: Methodology, cont.

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Lexical typology

• Lecture 4-5
• Lecture 6

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Phonological typology

• Lecture 7: Segmental inventories
• Lecture 8: Segmental inventories & Syllable structure
• Lecture 9: Syllable structure, cont.
• Lecture 10: Stress (& Morphological typology)

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Morphological typology

• Lecture 11
• Lecture 12
• Lecture 13
• Lecture 14

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Syntactic typology typology

• Lecture 15: Case
• Lecture 16: Argument alignment
• Lecture 17: Word order typology
• Lecture 18: Word order and beyond

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Typology and language change

• Lecture 19: Typology & Historical linguistics