References
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Much of this chapter, especially the part on basic word order, builds on Jae Jung Song: Linguistic Typology: Morphology and Syntax, Harlow: Longman 2001.
The Fula (Fulfulde, Fulani) words for cattle are taken from F. W. Taylor: Fulani-English Dictionary, New York: Hippocrene Books 1995.
The part on verb-framed vs. satellite-framed languages is largely based on Leonard Tálmy: Toward a Cognitive Semantics, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press 2000.
The stories of the owl exiting from a hole in the tree are discussed in Dan I. Slobin: "The Many Ways to Search for a Frog: Linguistic Typology and the Expression of Motion Events", to appear in S. Strömqvist & L. Verhoeven (eds.): Relating Events in Narrative: Typological and Contextual Perspectives. Mahwah, New Jersey: Erlbaum Publishers forthcoming 2003.
The relation between language and thought has been discussed by Halvor
Eifring in Dyade 5/1989.
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Two books that have been immensely useful in the preparation of this chapter are: Bernard Comrie (ed.): The Major Languages of South Asia, The Middle East and Africa, London: Routledge 1990, and Bernard Comrie (ed.): The Major Languages of East and South-East Asia, London: Routledge 1990.
The part on code-switching is largely based on Carol Myers-Scotton: "Code-switching", in Florian Coulmas (ed.): The Handbook of Sociolinguistics, Malden: Blackwell 1997 p. 217-37.
Both the part on code-switching and other parts of this chapter have also profited from Carol Myers-Scotton: Contact Linguistics: Bilingual Encounters and Grammatical Outcomes, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2002.
The part on pidgin and creole is largely based on John R. Rickford & John McWhorter: "Language Contact and Language Generation: Pidgins and Creoles", in Florian Coulmas (ed.): The Handbook of Sociolinguistics, Malden: Blackwell 1997 p. 238-56.
Most of the maps in the part on linguistic areas have been taken from George Boeree's website http://www.ship.edu/~psych/languagefamilies.html, though some of them have been slightly modified by us.
Map 3 (The language families of South Asia) has been taken from http://linguistics.buffalo.edu/people/faculty/dryer/dryer/map.sasia.gif.
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
The following books have been important sources for this chapter:Florian Coulmas: The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems. Malden: Blackwell 1999.
Florian Coulmas: Writing Systems: An Introduction to their Linguistic Analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2003.
Peter T. Daniels & William Bright: The World's Writing Systems. New York: Oxford University Press 1996.
Walter J. Ong: Orality and Literacy : the Technologizing of the Word. London : Methuen 1982.