Scales and hierarchies : a cross-disciplinary perspective / (edited) by Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, Andrej L. Malchukov, Marc Richards.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, Ina, 1979- editor.

Malʹchukov, A. L. (Andreĭ Lʹvovich), editor.

Richards, Marc, editor.

Series:

Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 277.

Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs, 1861-4302 ; 277

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hierarchy (Linguistics).

Grammar, Comparative and general--Case.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Functionalism (Linguistics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (362 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front matter

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783110395006

3110395002

9783110344134

3110344130

OCLC:

898769771