MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 01993cam a2200301 a 4500
001 2010005624
003 DLC
005 20100616151512.0
008 100212s2010 gw ab b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2010005624
020 $a9783110220926 (hardcover : alk. paper)
020 $a311022092X (hardcover : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn519836332
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dYDX$dYDXCP$dCDX$dBWX$dDLC
050 00 $aP204$b.R48 2010
082 00 $a415.01$222
245 00 $aRethinking universals :$bhow rarities affect linguistic theory /$cedited by Jan Wohlgemuth, Michael Cysouw.
260 $aBerlin ;$aNew York :$bDe Gruyter Mouton,$cc2010.
300 $ax, 288 p. :$bill., map ;$c24 cm.
490 1 $aEmpirical approaches to language typology ;$v45
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
505 0 $aThe 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.
650 0 $aTypology (Linguistics)
650 0 $aLinguistic universals.
650 0 $aGrammar, Comparative and general.
700 1 $aWohlgemuth, Jan.
700 1 $aCysouw, Michael.
830 0 $aEmpirical approaches to language typology ;$v45.