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The linguistic typology of templates. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-01502-9 .  \nReviewed by Adam J. R. Tallman [æɾm̩ dʒemz ɹas talmn̩ ], Friedrich Schiller Universität, Jena, Germany; and Max Planck Institut für Evolutionäre Anthropologie, Leipzig, Germany,  \nE-mail: [adam.james.ross.tallman@uni-jena.de](adam.james.ross.tallman@uni-jena.de)  \n[https://doi.org/10.1515/lingty-2022-2093](https://doi.org/10.1515/lingty-2022-2093)  \nJeff Good’s The linguistic typology of templates develops a typological approach to investigating templatic structures. The notion of a ‘template’ is a polysemous term covering a wide array of structural relations. For Good the core concept unifying different notions of template is that they represent “surprising” instances of linear stipulation. While some notion of linear order has played a part in different typological projects (e.g. word order universals), Good’s study is unique in that it investigates linear stipulation across different domains of grammar and developsa sophisticated description language that allows for relevant typological variables to be to coded with a high degree of granularity. While the research is in its preliminary stages in terms of the number of languages and constructions coded, the program envisioned by Good cuts to shreds an oft recited mantra about typological research necessarily being coarse grained and superficial. Good’s approach also represents a significant advance in autotype method (Bickel 2010; Bickel and Nichols 2002; Witzlack-Makarevich et al. 2022) as he shows that typological variables can be baked into Head Drive Phrase Structure (HPSG) style nested feature-value structures. The resulting database can be analyzed with graph theory methods, which Good shows to be flexible enough to engage with a diverse range of research questions.  \nThe book is divided into five chapters. The first chapter provides a literature review of the uses of the notion of ‘template’ in linguistics, dividing the uses into different subclasses while teasing out a comparative concept for the notion. Good describes morphophonological, morphosyntactic, phonological, and syntactic templates. A morphophonological template is one where some constituent is subject to constraints on linear order that can be stated in phonological terms. Amorphosyntactic template refers to a template where the linear order of “morphosyntactic or morphosemantic” categories are referred to. A phonological template is one which specifies the linear order of phonological elements based on phonological constraints(e.g. the order of consonants, vowels etc. in syllabification  \n Open Access. © 2022 Adam J. R. Tallman, published by De Gruyter.  This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4 .0 International License.  \n706  \nBook Review  \nrules). A syntactic template is one that involves an analysis whereby linear realization of elements involve syntactic notions such as phrase. Good abstracts away from the differences between templates in the distinct domains with the following definition/comparative concept for a template.  \n(1) Template: An analytic device used to characterize the linear realization of a linguistic constituent whose linear stipulations are unexpected from the point of view of a given linguist’s approach to linguistic analysis.  \nGood then provides a discussion of what it means for linear stipulation to be“unexpected”. He points out that the notion oftemplate asitis used in the literature is not rigorous enough for typological study. The reason for this is because it is unclear how we should discern that some pattern of linear stipulation is “unexpected” a priori. Good’s passage is worth quoting in full since it shows a perceptive understanding of the degree to which linguistic analysis is overly subjective while also explaining the motivation for his own study.  \nAn additional condition must be met [for some instance of linear or","cbCaioMNtMOCNos9","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaioMNtMOCNos9","pdf",502248,13,"English","# Book Review\n## Overview of the typological approach\n## Definition of template and “unexpectedness”\n## Template types by grammatical domain\n## Program, methods, and database analysis\n## Chapter structure (five chapters)","[{\"question\":\"What is the central idea of Good’s approach to templatic structures?\",\"answer\":\"The book uses a typological approach where “template” covers multiple structural relations unified by instances of “surprising” linear stipulation.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the review describe Good’s descriptive and analytical methods?\",\"answer\":\"Good develops a language for coding typological variables with fine granularity, embedding variables into HPSG-style nested feature-value structures, and then analyzing the resulting database using graph theory methods.\"},{\"question\":\"Which template types does the first chapter distinguish?\",\"answer\":\"It separates morphophonological, morphosyntactic, phonological, and syntactic templates based on how linear order constraints are expressed in different grammatical domains.\"}]","Book Review - Jeff Good - The linguistic typology of templates | PDF",1790613262]