Rethinking universals how rarities affect linguistic theory /

Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Other Authors: Wohlgemuth, Jan.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 2010.
Series:Empirical approaches to language typology ; 45
Subjects:
Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10381224
Table of Contents:
  • The other end of universals: theory and typology of rara / Michael Cysouw & Jan Wohlgemuth
  • Rarities in numeral systems / Harald Hammarstrθom
  • 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 / S²ren Wichmann & Eric W. Holman
  • Language endangerment, community size and typological rarity / Jan Wohlgemuth.