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Title: Rethinking universals how rarities affect linguistic theory / edited by Jan Wohlgemuth, Michael Cysouw.
Empirical approaches to language typology ;
Empirical approaches to language typology ;

Main Entry: Wohlgemuth, Jan.
Cysouw, Michael.
ebrary, Inc.

Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter,
Publication Date: 2010.
Publication Place: Berlin ; New York :
ISBN: 9783110220926 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9783110220933 (e-book)

Subject: Typology (Linguistics)
Linguistic universals.
Grammar, Comparative and general.
Electronic books.

Series: Empirical approaches to language typology ; 45
Empirical approaches to language typology ; 45.

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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