역사언어학과 언어유형론의 가로지르기

Abstract

This article is a review for A Worldwide Perspective on Languages - Historical Linguistics and Linguistic Typology. Organized in total 4 parts and containing 18 articles, this book shows the academic history of Katsumi Matsumoto who is eminent as a linguist in Japan. His major is a historical and comparative linguistics, but he has been interested in the universality of human lanuage, too. This book is to synthesize the achivement of a historical and comparative linguistics and a linguisic typology on the basis of the immense data such as case system, word order, type of liquid sound, vowel hormony and sibling terminology, etc. The review for this book is written on major themes contained in the book, ‘the past and present of the Indo-European languages’, ‘the typology of word order’, ‘anti-subjectism’, and ‘the grographical distribution of the world’s languages’. In this way, I could reveal the value of this book that contributes to reconider us the common sense of linguistic studies.