how rarities affect linguistic theory Wohlgemuth, Jan. Cysouw, Michael. ebrary, Inc text bibliography Electronic books. gw Berlin New York Mouton de Gruyter 2010 monographic eng

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x, 288 p. : ill. 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. edited by Jan Wohlgemuth, Michael Cysouw. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. 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 P204 .R48 2010eb 415.01 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10381224 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10381224 CaPaEBR 100212 ebr10381224