Markedness and Language Change : : The Romani Sample / / Viktor Elšik, Yaron Matras.
'Markedness' is a central notion in linguistic theory. This book is the first to provide a comprehensive survey of markedness relations across various grammatical categories, in a sample of closely-related speech varieties. It is based on a sample of over 100 dialects of Romani, collected...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2008] ©2006 |
| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT] ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (475 p.) :; Numerous tab. 2 maps |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Chapter 1 Introduction: Markedness and asymmetry in
- language
- Chapter 2 The Markedness Hypothesis
- Chapter 3 Toward a communication-based model of
- asymmetry in language
- Chapter 4 The sample: Methodological
- considerations
- Chapter 5 Early Romani
- Chapter 6 Number
- Chapter 7 Person
- Chapter 8 Gender
- Chapter 9 Degree
- Chapter 10 Negation
- Chapter 11 Cardinality
- Chapter 12 Discreteness
- Chapter 13 Tense, aspect, and mood
- Chapter 14 Modality
- Chapter 15 Transitivity
- Chapter 16 Case and case roles
- Chapter 17 Localisation
- Chapter 18 Orientation
- Chapter 19 Indefiniteness
- Chapter 20 Ontological category
- Chapter 21 Lexicality
- Chapter 22 Associativity
- Chapter 23 Chronological
- compartmentalisation
- Chapter 24 Criteria for asymmetry and their
- distribution across categories
- Chapter 25 Patterns of asymmetry
- Chapter 26 Conceptual motivations for
- asymmetry
- Chapter 27 Concluding remarks
- Backmatter