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Record Nr.

UNINA9910139256103321

Titolo

Rara & rarissima : documenting the fringes of linguistic diversity / / edited by Jan Wohlgemuth and Michael Cysouw

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York, : De Gruyter Mouton, 2010

ISBN

1-283-16522-8

9786613165220

3-11-022855-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (424 p.)

Collana

Empirical approaches to language typology, , 0933-761X ; ; 46

Classificazione

ES 425

Altri autori (Persone)

WohlgemuthJan

CysouwMichael

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Typology (Linguistics)

Linguistic universals

Grammar, Comparative and general

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Unexpected non-anaphoric marking in Aleut / Berge, Anna -- The nature of consonant sequences in Modern Georgian / Butskhrikidze, Marika -- When typological rara generate rarissima: analogical extension of verbal agreement in Dutch dialects / De Vogelaer, Gunther / Auwera, Johan van der -- Social-deixis classifiers in Weining Ahmao / Gerner, Matthias / Bisang, Walter -- "She kisses her late husband" = "She kissed her husband": nominal tense in Movima / Haude, Katharina -- The accentual system of Hocąk / Helmbrecht, Johannes -- Affixation by place of articulation: the case of Tiene / Hyman, Larry M. -- Future tense to express habitual past or present, and past tense to express immediate future / Kelkar-Stephan, Leena -- Abui tripartite verbs: exploring the limits of compositionality / Klamer, Marian / Kratochvíl, František -- Ideophones and templatic morphology in Totonac / McFarland, Teresa -- Subtractive plural morphology in Sinhala / Nitz, Eike / Nordhoff, Sebastian -- The Dravidian zero negative: diachronic context of its morphogenesis and conceptualisation / Pilot-Raichoor, Christiane -- Relative root complement: a unique grammatical relation



in Algonquian syntax / Rhodes, Richard A. -- Mawng lexicalised agreement in typological perspective / Singer, Ruth -- Syllabic Obstruents in Ahtna Athabaskan / Tuttle, Siri G. -- The puzzle of two terms for red in Hungarian / Uusküla, Mari / Sutrop, Urmas -- Possessive voice in Wolof: a rare type of valency operator / Voisin-Nouguier, Sylvie -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

The papers in this book describe and analyze rara in individuallanguages, covering an extraordinarily broad geographic distribution,including papers about languages from all over the globe. Therange of theoretical subjects discussed shows an enormous breadth, ranging from phonology through word formation, lexical semantics tosyntax and even some sociolinguistics.