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Title Rara & rarissima : documenting the fringes of linguistic diversity / edited by Jan Wohlgemuth and Michael Cysouw
Published Berlin ; New York : De Gruyter Mouton, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 408 pages) : illustrations maps
Series Empirical approaches to language typology ; 46
Empirical approaches to language typology ; 46
Contents Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Unexpected non-anaphoric marking in Aleut -- The nature of consonant sequences in Modern Georgian -- When typological rara generate rarissima: analogical extension of verbal agreement in Dutch dialects -- Social-deixis classifiers in Weining Ahmao -- “She kisses her late husband” = “She kissed her husband”: nominal tense in Movima -- The accentual system of Hocąk -- Affixation by place of articulation: the case of Tiene -- Future tense to express habitual past or present, and past tense to express immediate future -- Abui tripartite verbs: exploring the limits of compositionality -- Ideophones and templatic morphology in Totonac -- Subtractive plural morphology in Sinhala -- The Dravidian zero negative: diachronic context of its morphogenesis and conceptualisation -- Relative root complement: a unique grammatical relation in Algonquian syntax -- Mawng lexicalised agreement in typological perspective -- Syllabic Obstruents in Ahtna Athabaskan -- The puzzle of two terms for red in Hungarian -- Possessive voice in Wolof: a rare type of valency operator -- Index
Summary The papers in this book describe and analyze rara in individual languages, covering an extraordinarily broad geographic distribution, including papers about languages from all over the globe. The range of theoretical subjects discussed shows an enormous breadth, ranging from phonology through word formation, lexical semantics to syntax and even some sociolinguistics
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
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Subject Typology (Linguistics)
Linguistic universals.
Grammar, Comparative and general.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Syntax.
Grammar, Comparative and general
Linguistic universals
Typology (Linguistics)
Sprachtypologie
Minderheitensprache
Sprachliche Universalien
Taaltypologie.
Exceptie.
rareté -- typologie (linguistique) -- congrès.
langue -- rareté -- étude de cas.
Form Electronic book
Author Wohlgemuth, Jan
Cysouw, Michael
LC no. 2010047048
ISBN 9783110228557
3110228556
1283165228
9781283165228
9786613165220
6613165220
Other Titles Rara and rarissima