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BL
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1045504
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b799874
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Rethinking universals : : how rarities affect linguistic theory /\ edited by Jan Wohlgemuth, Michael Cysouw.
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| Publication Statement
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Berlin ;New York :: De Gruyter Mouton,, ©2010.
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| Series Statement
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Empirical approaches to language typology ;; 45
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1 online resource (x, 288 pages) :: illustrations, map
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| ISBN
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1282716360
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: 3110220938
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: 6612716363
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: 9781282716360
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: 9783110220933
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: 9786612716362
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311022092X
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9783110220926
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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| Contents
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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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| Abstract
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Rarissima and rara, features and properties found only in one or very few languages, tell us as much about the capacities and limits of human language(s) as do universals. Explaining the existence of such rare phenomena on the one hand, and the fact of their rareness or uniqueness on the other, proves a reasonable and interesting challenge to any theory of how human language works.
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Grammar, Comparative and general.
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Linguistic universals.
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Typology (Linguistics)
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Grammar, Comparative and general.
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LANGUAGE ARTS DISCIPLINES-- Grammar Punctuation.
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LANGUAGE ARTS DISCIPLINES-- Linguistics-- Syntax.
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Linguistic universals.
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Typology (Linguistics)
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| Dewey Classification
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415.01
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| LC Classification
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P204.R48 2010eb
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ER 715rvk
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ER 715.rvk
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Cysouw, Michael.
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Wohlgemuth, Jan.
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