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UNINA9910464451703321 |
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Titolo |
Scales and hierarchies : a cross-disciplinary perspective / / (edited) by Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, Andrej L. Malchukov, Marc Richards |
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Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter, , [2015] |
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©2015 |
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ISBN |
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3-11-039500-2 |
3-11-034413-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (362 p.) |
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Collana |
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Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs, , 1861-4302 ; ; 277 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Hierarchy (Linguistics) |
Grammar, Comparative and general - Case |
Functionalism (Linguistics) |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front matter -- Table of contents -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Typological evidence against universal effects of referential scales on case alignment -- 3. Descriptive scales versus comparative scales -- 4. Generalizing Scales -- 5. Differential Argument Encoding by Impoverishment -- 6. Ø-Agreement in Turkana -- 7. Defective Agree, Case Alternations, and the Prominence of Person -- 8. Prefixes, Scales and Grammatical Theory -- 9. Argument Encoding in Direction Systems and Specificity-Driven Agree -- 10. Towards a typology of split ergativity: A TAM-hierarchy for alignment splits -- 11. Split Marked-S Case Systems -- 12. Scales in real-time language comprehension: A review -- Subject index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The volume advances our understanding of the role of scales and hierarchies across the linguistic sciences. Although scales and hierarchies are widely assumed to play a role in the modelling of linguistic phenomena, their status remains controversial, and it is these controversies that the present volume tackles head-on. |
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