Scales and hierarchies : a cross-disciplinary perspective / / (edited) by Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, Andrej L. Malchukov, Marc Richards
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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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| Pubblicazione: | Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter, , [2015] |
| ©2015 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (362 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 410.1/8 |
| Soggetto topico: | Hierarchy (Linguistics) |
| Grammar, Comparative and general - Case | |
| Functionalism (Linguistics) | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Classificazione: | ES 172 |
| Persona (resp. second.): | Bornkessel-SchlesewskyIna <1979-> |
| MalʹchukovA. L (Andreĭ Lʹvovich) | |
| RichardsMarc | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Scales and hierarchies |
| ISBN: | 3-11-039500-2 |
| 3-11-034413-0 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910464451703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Trends in linguistics. . -Studies and monographs ; ; 277.