Rethinking universals [electronic resource] : how rarities affect linguistic theory / edited by Jan Wohlgemuth, Michael Cysouw.
Series: Empirical approaches to language typology ; 45.Publication details: Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 2010.Description: x, 288 p. : illISBN:- 9783110220926 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9783110220933 (e-book)
- 415.01 22
- P204 .R48 2010eb
eBooks
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.
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