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IMPORTANT: Please write me about the research topic you are going write before you start writing it. I need to get approval from my professor before working on it. I will give you extra time on this. Thank you.

Please see the essay instruction, clarification and marking rubric files as the instruction of the essay. You MUST make use of some chapters from
1. Shopen, T. (ed.) 2007/2010. Language Typology and Syntactic Description. Cambridge University Press. Volumes I, II, and III
and
2. The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Typology (OHLT), 2010/2012
as a reference.
If you need access to the two books above, please let me know, I will provide the resources.

Other recommend references
1. Payne, Thomas. 1997. Describing Morphosyntax. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2. Whaley, L. 1997. Introduction to Typology. The Unity and Diversity of Language. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
3. Comrie, B. 1989. Language Universals and Linguistic Typology, second edition.
The University of Chicago Press.
4. Comrie, B. 1987. The World�s Major Languages. Oxford University Press.
5. Croft, W. 1990. Typology and universals. Cambridge University Press.
6. Hawkins, J. 1988. Explaining Language Universals. Oxford: Blackwell.
7. Lyovin, A.V. 1997. An Introduction to the languages of the world. New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press.
8. Newmeyer, F. 1998. Language Form and Language Function. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Other useful webistes
1. Ethnologue
An encyclopaedic reference work cataloguing all of the world�s 6,912 known living languages
https://www.ethnologue.com
2. The World Atlas of Language
Structure Online
https://wals.info/