04157nam 2200733 a 450 991080776830332120240506085401.01-282-71636-097866127163623-11-022093-810.1515/9783110220933(CKB)2670000000018693(EBL)516521(OCoLC)635954999(SSID)ssj0000427189(PQKBManifestationID)12148565(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000427189(PQKBWorkID)10406147(PQKB)10249184(MiAaPQ)EBC516521(DE-B1597)37073(OCoLC)719451484(DE-B1597)9783110220933(Au-PeEL)EBL516521(CaPaEBR)ebr10381224(CaONFJC)MIL271636(EXLCZ)99267000000001869320100212d2010 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrRethinking universals how rarities affect linguistic theory /edited by Jan Wohlgemuth, Michael Cysouw1st ed.Berlin ;New York Mouton de Gruyter20101 online resource (298 p.)Empirical approaches to language typology ;45Description based upon print version of record.3-11-022092-X Includes bibliographical references and indexes.The other end of universals: theory and typology of rara / Michael Cysouw & Jan Wohlgemuth -- Rarities in numeral systems / Harald Hammarström -- 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 / Søren Wichmann & Eric W. Holman -- Language endangerment, community size and typological rarity / Jan Wohlgemuth.Universals of language have been studied extensively for the last four decades, allowing fundamental insight into the principles and general properties of human language. Only incidentally have researchers looked at the other end of the scale. And even when they did, they mostly just noted peculiar facts as ''quirks'' or ''unusual behavior'', without making too much of an effort at explaining them beyond calling them ''exceptions'' to various rules or generalizations. Rarissima and rara, features and properties found only in one or very few languages, tell us as much about the capacities and limits of human language(s) as do universals. Explaining the existence of such rare phenomena on the one hand, and the fact of their rareness or uniqueness on the other, is a reasonable and interesting challenge to any theory of how human language works. The present volume for the first time compiles selected papers on the study of rare linguistic features from various fields of linguistics and from a wide range of languages. Empirical approaches to language typology ;45.Typology (Linguistics)Linguistic universalsGrammar, Comparative and generalHistorical Linguistics.Language Typology.Linguistic Theories.Typology (Linguistics)Linguistic universals.Grammar, Comparative and general.415.01ER 715rvkWohlgemuth Jan1037207Cysouw Michael691500MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910807768303321Rethinking universals4015412UNINA