Rethinking universals [electronic resource] : how rarities affect linguistic theory / edited by Jan Wohlgemuth, Michael Cysouw.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Empirical approaches to language typology ; 45.Publication details: Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 2010.Description: x, 288 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 415.01 22
LOC classification:
  • P204 .R48 2010eb
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Contents:
The other end of universals: theory and typology of rara / Michael Cysouw & Jan Wohlgemuth -- Rarities in numeral systems / Harald Hammarström -- Additional rarities in the typology of numerals / Thomas Hanke -- Explaining typologically unusual structures: the role of probability / Alice C. Harris -- Right at the left edge: initial consonant mutations in the languages of the world / Pavel Iosad -- Quirky case: rare phenomena in case-marking and their implications for a theory of typological distributions / Andrej Malchukov -- Negatives without negators / Matti Miestamo -- Accounting for rare typological features in formal syntax: three strategies and some general remarks / Frederick J. Newmeyer -- Rara and grammatical theory /Jan Rijkhoff -- Pairwise comparisons of typological profiles / Søren Wichmann & Eric W. Holman -- Language endangerment, community size and typological rarity / Jan Wohlgemuth.
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The other end of universals: theory and typology of rara / Michael Cysouw & Jan Wohlgemuth -- Rarities in numeral systems / Harald Hammarström -- Additional rarities in the typology of numerals / Thomas Hanke -- Explaining typologically unusual structures: the role of probability / Alice C. Harris -- Right at the left edge: initial consonant mutations in the languages of the world / Pavel Iosad -- Quirky case: rare phenomena in case-marking and their implications for a theory of typological distributions / Andrej Malchukov -- Negatives without negators / Matti Miestamo -- Accounting for rare typological features in formal syntax: three strategies and some general remarks / Frederick J. Newmeyer -- Rara and grammatical theory /Jan Rijkhoff -- Pairwise comparisons of typological profiles / Søren Wichmann & Eric W. Holman -- Language endangerment, community size and typological rarity / Jan Wohlgemuth.

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