Rethinking universals how rarities affect linguistic theory
Rarissima and rara, features and properties found only in one or very few languages, tell us as much about the capacities and limits of human language(s) as do universals. Explaining the existence of such rare phenomena on the one hand, and the fact of their rareness or uniqueness on the other, prov...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; New York :
De Gruyter Mouton
c2010.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Empirical approaches to language typology ; 45. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b31327813*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
