02401nam a2200373 a 4500 ebr10381224 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 100212s2010 gw a sb 001 0 eng 2010005624 9783110220926 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9783110220933 (e-book) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)635954999 P204 .R48 2010eb 415.01 22 Rethinking universals [electronic resource] : how rarities affect linguistic theory / edited by Jan Wohlgemuth, Michael Cysouw. Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 2010. x, 288 p. : ill. Empirical approaches to language typology ; 45 Includes bibliographical references and indexes. The other end of universals: theory and typology of rara / Michael Cysouw & Jan Wohlgemuth -- Rarities in numeral systems / Harald Hammarstr�om -- 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 / S�ren Wichmann & Eric W. Holman -- Language endangerment, community size and typological rarity / Jan Wohlgemuth. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Typology (Linguistics) Linguistic universals. Grammar, Comparative and general. Electronic books. local Wohlgemuth, Jan. Cysouw, Michael. ebrary, Inc. Empirical approaches to language typology ; 45. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10381224 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 102408 102408