Scales and Hierarchies : : A Cross-Disciplinary Perspective / / ed. by Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, Andrej Malchukov, Marc D. Richards.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2015 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Bickel, Balthasar,; Biskup, Petr,; Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, Ina,; Cysouw, Michael,; Hamann, Jakob,; Handschuh, Corinna,; Haspelmath, Martin,; Keine, Stefan,; Malchukov, Andrej L.,; Müller, Gereon,; Richards, Marc D.,; Schlesewsky, Matthias,; Trommer, Jochen,; Witzlack-Makarevich, Alena,; Zakharko, Taras,; Zybatow, Gerhild,
• HerausgeberIn: Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, Ina,; Malchukov, Andrej ,; Richards, Marc D.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2014]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 277
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (356 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Table of contents --; 1. Introduction --; 2. Typological evidence against universal effects of referential scales on case alignment --; 3. Descriptive scales versus comparative scales --; 4. Generalizing Scales --; 5. Differential Argument Encoding by Impoverishment --; 6. Ø-Agreement in Turkana --; 7. Defective Agree, Case Alternations, and the Prominence of Person --; 8. Prefixes, Scales and Grammatical Theory --; 9. Argument Encoding in Direction Systems and Specificity-Driven Agree --; 10. Towards a typology of split ergativity: A TAM-hierarchy for alignment splits --; 11. Split Marked-S Case Systems --; 12. Scales in real-time language comprehension: A review --; Subject index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110344134; 9783110762518; 9783110700985; 9783110742961; 9783110369526; 9783110370270
• ISSN: 1861-4302
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110344134
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, Andrej Malchukov, Marc D. Richards.

The volume advances our understanding of the role of scales and hierarchies across the linguistic sciences. Although scales and hierarchies are widely assumed to play a role in the modelling of linguistic phenomena, their status remains controversial, and it is these controversies that the present volume tackles head-on.