Rethinking universals : how rarities affect linguistic theory / edited by Jan Wohlgemuth, Michael Cysouw.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wohlgemuth, Jan.

Cysouw, Michael

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Empirical approaches to language typology ; 45.

Empirical approaches to language typology ; 45

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Typology (Linguistics).

Linguistic universals.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Physical Description:

x, 288 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : De Gruyter Mouton, [2010]

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

311022092X

9783110220926

OCLC:

519836332

Publisher Number:

99944096267