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Rethinking universals how rarities affect linguistic theory / edited by Jan Wohlgemuth, Michael Cysouw.
| Other author | Wohlgemuth, Jan. |
| Other author | Cysouw, Michael. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Berlin ; New York : De Gruyter Mouton, |
| Description | x, 288 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Empirical approaches to language typology ; 45 Empirical approaches to language typology ; 45. ^A1246558 |
| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2010005624 |
| ISBN | 9783110220926 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 311022092X (hardcover : alk. paper) |