LEADER 04157nam 2200733 a 450 001 9910807768303321 005 20240506085401.0 010 $a1-282-71636-0 010 $a9786612716362 010 $a3-11-022093-8 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110220933 035 $a(CKB)2670000000018693 035 $a(EBL)516521 035 $a(OCoLC)635954999 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000427189 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12148565 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000427189 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10406147 035 $a(PQKB)10249184 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC516521 035 $a(DE-B1597)37073 035 $a(OCoLC)719451484 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110220933 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL516521 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10381224 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL271636 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000018693 100 $a20100212d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aRethinking universals $ehow rarities affect linguistic theory /$fedited by Jan Wohlgemuth, Michael Cysouw 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aBerlin ;$aNew York $cMouton de Gruyter$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (298 p.) 225 1 $aEmpirical approaches to language typology ;$v45 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a3-11-022092-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $aThe other end of universals: theory and typology of rara / Michael Cysouw & Jan Wohlgemuth -- Rarities in numeral systems / Harald Hammarstro?m -- 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. 330 $aUniversals of language have been studied extensively for the last four decades, allowing fundamental insight into the principles and general properties of human language. Only incidentally have researchers looked at the other end of the scale. And even when they did, they mostly just noted peculiar facts as ''quirks'' or ''unusual behavior'', without making too much of an effort at explaining them beyond calling them ''exceptions'' to various rules or generalizations. Rarissima and rara, features and properties found only in one or very few languages, tell us as much about the capacities and limits of human language(s) as do universals. Explaining the existence of such rare phenomena on the one hand, and the fact of their rareness or uniqueness on the other, is a reasonable and interesting challenge to any theory of how human language works. The present volume for the first time compiles selected papers on the study of rare linguistic features from various fields of linguistics and from a wide range of languages. 410 0$aEmpirical approaches to language typology ;$v45. 606 $aTypology (Linguistics) 606 $aLinguistic universals 606 $aGrammar, Comparative and general 610 $aHistorical Linguistics. 610 $aLanguage Typology. 610 $aLinguistic Theories. 615 0$aTypology (Linguistics) 615 0$aLinguistic universals. 615 0$aGrammar, Comparative and general. 676 $a415.01 686 $aER 715$2rvk 701 $aWohlgemuth$b Jan$01037207 701 $aCysouw$b Michael$0691500 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910807768303321 996 $aRethinking universals$94015412 997 $aUNINA