Rethinking universals how rarities affect linguistic theory / [electronic resource] :
edited by Jan Wohlgemuth, Michael Cysouw.
- Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 2010.
- x, 288 p. : ill.
- Empirical approaches to language typology ; 45 .
- Empirical approaches to language typology ; 45. .
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
The other end of universals: theory and typology of rara / Michael Cysouw & Jan Wohlgemuth -- Rarities in numeral systems / Harald Hammarstr�om -- 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 / S�ren Wichmann & Eric W. Holman -- Language endangerment, community size and typological rarity / Jan Wohlgemuth.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2011.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Typology (Linguistics)
Linguistic universals.
Grammar, Comparative and general.
Electronic books.
P204 / .R48 2010eb
415.01
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
The other end of universals: theory and typology of rara / Michael Cysouw & Jan Wohlgemuth -- Rarities in numeral systems / Harald Hammarstr�om -- 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 / S�ren Wichmann & Eric W. Holman -- Language endangerment, community size and typological rarity / Jan Wohlgemuth.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2011.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Typology (Linguistics)
Linguistic universals.
Grammar, Comparative and general.
Electronic books.
P204 / .R48 2010eb
415.01