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De Gruyter Mouton
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English
Pages
288

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Typology (Linguistics), Comparative and general Grammar, Linguistic universals

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Table of Contents

The other end of universals: theory and typology of rara / Michael Cysouw & Jan Wohlgemuth
Rarities in numeral systems / Harald Hammarström
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 / Søren Wichmann & Eric W. Holman
Language endangerment, community size and typological rarity / Jan Wohlgemuth.

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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Berlin, New York
Series
Empirical approaches to language typology -- 45

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Dewey Decimal Class
415.01
Library of Congress
P204 .R48 2010

Contributors

Editor
Michael Cysouw
Editor
Jan Wohlgemuth

The Physical Object

Pagination
x, 288 p. :
Number of pages
288

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Open Library
OL24451991M
Internet Archive
rethinkinguniver00wohl
ISBN 10
311022092X
ISBN 13
9783110220926
LCCN
2010005624
OCLC/WorldCat
519836332

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