Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 March 2020
Nettle (1999: 138) has written that ‘no relationships of grammatical typology to structure or social organisation have been convincingly demonstrated’, but that ‘it seems quite plausible that some such relationship could exist’, although ‘the question has received little rigorous scholarly attention’. It is precisely this question which sociolinguistic typology is intended to devote scholarly attention to. The term sociolinguistic typology, as noted in the Prologue and in Chapter 1, refers to research which attempts to apply sociolinguistic data and insights to the study of the typology of the world’s languages.
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