Rethinking universals
Subtitle: how rarities affect linguistic theory
By: edited by Jan Wohlgemuth, Michael Cysouw
Series: Empirical approaches to language typology -- 45
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9783110220926
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.