| Description |
x, 288 p. : ill. |
| Series |
Empirical approaches to language typology ; 45 |
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Empirical approaches to language typology ; 45.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
The other end of universals: theory and typology of rara / Michael Cysouw & Jan Wohlgemuth -- Rarities in numeral systems / Harald Hammarstrom -- 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 / Sren Wichmann & Eric W. Holman -- Language endangerment, community size and typological rarity / Jan Wohlgemuth. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Typology (Linguistics)
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Linguistic universals.
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Grammar, Comparative and general.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Wohlgemuth, Jan.
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Cysouw, Michael.
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ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
9783110220926 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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9783110220933 (electronic bk.) |
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