Rethinking universals : how rarities affect linguistic theory / / edited by Jan Wohlgemuth, Michael Cysouw.
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| Superior document: | Empirical approaches to language typology ; 45 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Empirical approaches to language typology ;
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| Physical Description: | x, 288 p. :; ill. |
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Table of Contents:
- The other end of universals: theory and typology of rara / Michael Cysouw & Jan Wohlgemuth
- Rarities in numeral systems / Harald Hammarstrom
- 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 / Sren Wichmann & Eric W. Holman
- Language endangerment, community size and typological rarity / Jan Wohlgemuth.