Rethinking universals
Subtitle: how rarities affect linguistic theory
By: edited by Jan Wohlgemuth, Michael Cysouw.
Contributors: Wohlgemuth, Jan.; Cysouw, Michael.
Series: Empirical approaches to language typology; 45
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9783110220926
Subjects: Typology (Linguistics); Linguistic universals; Grammar, Comparative and general
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: The other end of universals: theory and typology of rara / Michael Cysouw & Jan Wohlgemuth; title: Rarities in numeral systems / Harald Hammarström; title: Additional rarities in the typology of numerals / Thomas Hanke; title: Explaining typologically unusual structures: the role of probability / Alice C. Harris; title: Right at the left edge: initial consonant mutations in the languages of the world / Pavel Iosad; title: Quirky case: rare phenomena in case-marking and their implications for a theory of typological distributions / Andrej Malchukov; title: Negatives without negators / Matti Miestamo; title: Accounting for rare typological features in formal syntax: three strategies and some general remarks / Frederick J. Newmeyer; title: Rara and grammatical theory /Jan Rijkhoff; title: Pairwise comparisons of typological profiles / Søren Wichmann & Eric W. Holman; title: Language endangerment, community size and typological rarity / Jan Wohlgemuth.