Rara & rarissima : documenting the fringes of linguistic diversity / edited by Jan Wohlgemuth and Michael Cysouw.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wohlgemuth, Jan.

Cysouw, Michael.

Series:

Empirical approaches to language typology ; 46.

Empirical approaches to language typology, 0933-761X ; 46

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Typology (Linguistics).

Linguistic universals.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (424 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Rara and rarissima

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : De Gruyter Mouton, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The papers in this book describe and analyze rara in individuallanguages, covering an extraordinarily broad geographic distribution,including papers about languages from all over the globe. Therange of theoretical subjects discussed shows an enormous breadth, ranging from phonology through word formation, lexical semantics tosyntax and even some sociolinguistics.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

List of contributors

Unexpected non-anaphoric marking in Aleut / Berge, Anna

The nature of consonant sequences in Modern Georgian / Butskhrikidze, Marika

When typological rara generate rarissima: analogical extension of verbal agreement in Dutch dialects / De Vogelaer, Gunther / Auwera, Johan van der

Social-deixis classifiers in Weining Ahmao / Gerner, Matthias / Bisang, Walter

"She kisses her late husband" = "She kissed her husband": nominal tense in Movima / Haude, Katharina

The accentual system of Hocąk / Helmbrecht, Johannes

Affixation by place of articulation: the case of Tiene / Hyman, Larry M.

Future tense to express habitual past or present, and past tense to express immediate future / Kelkar-Stephan, Leena

Abui tripartite verbs: exploring the limits of compositionality / Klamer, Marian / Kratochvíl, František

Ideophones and templatic morphology in Totonac / McFarland, Teresa

Subtractive plural morphology in Sinhala / Nitz, Eike / Nordhoff, Sebastian

The Dravidian zero negative: diachronic context of its morphogenesis and conceptualisation / Pilot-Raichoor, Christiane

Relative root complement: a unique grammatical relation in Algonquian syntax / Rhodes, Richard A.

Mawng lexicalised agreement in typological perspective / Singer, Ruth

Syllabic Obstruents in Ahtna Athabaskan / Tuttle, Siri G.

The puzzle of two terms for red in Hungarian / Uusküla, Mari / Sutrop, Urmas

Possessive voice in Wolof: a rare type of valency operator / Voisin-Nouguier, Sylvie

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786613165220

9781283165228

1283165228

9783110228557

3110228556

OCLC:

753968287