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Linguistic typology

an approach that defines an ideal, canonical instance of a category and measures actual phenomena by their distance from it.

In linguistic typology, canonical typology refers to an approach that defines an ideal, canonical instance of a category and measures actual phenomena by their distance from it. This meaning comes from Corbett (2005) in Studies in Language Companion Series.[1]

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category4 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs ideal2 fields · 2 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs series3 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs

References

Corbett, G. G. (2005). The canonical approach in typology*. In Studies in Language Companion Series (pp. 25-49). John Benjamins Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.72.03cor

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