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

• Pubblicazione: Berlin ; ; New York, : De Gruyter Mouton, 2010
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (424 p.)
• Disciplina: 415
• Soggetto topico: Typology (Linguistics); Linguistic universals; Grammar, Comparative and general
• Soggetto non controllato: Corpus Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Language Typology
• Classificazione: ES 425
• Altri autori: WohlgemuthJan CysouwMichael
• 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.
• Altri titoli varianti: Rara and rarissima
• Titolo autorizzato: Rara & rarissima
• ISBN: 1-283-16522-8; 9786613165220; 3-11-022855-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910139256103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Empirical approaches to language typology ; ; 46.