Rara & Rarissima : : Documenting the Fringes of Linguistic Diversity / / ed. by Jan Wohlgemuth, Michael Cysouw.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Auwera, Johan van der,; Berge, Anna,; Bisang, Walter,; Butskhrikidze, Marika,; De Vogelaer, Gunther,; Gerner, Matthias,; Haude, Katharina,; Helmbrecht, Johannes,; Hyman, Larry M.,; Kelkar-Stephan, Leena,; Klamer, Marian,; Kratochvíl, František,; McFarland, Teresa,; Nitz, Eike,; Nordhoff, Sebastian,; Pilot-Raichoor, Christiane,; Rhodes, Richard A.,; Singer, Ruth,; Sutrop, Urmas,; Tuttle, Siri G.,; Uusküla, Mari,; Voisin-Nouguier, Sylvie,
• HerausgeberIn: Cysouw, Michael,; Wohlgemuth, Jan,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2010]; ©2011
• Any de publicació: 2010
• Idioma: English
• Col·lecció: Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT] , 46
• Descripció física: 1 online resource (408 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Preface --; Contents --; List of contributors --; Unexpected non-anaphoric marking in Aleut --; The nature of consonant sequences in Modern Georgian --; When typological rara generate rarissima: analogical extension of verbal agreement in Dutch dialects --; Social-deixis classifiers in Weining Ahmao --; “She kisses her late husband” = “She kissed her husband”: nominal tense in Movima --; The accentual system of Hocąk --; Affixation by place of articulation: the case of Tiene --; Future tense to express habitual past or present, and past tense to express immediate future --; Abui tripartite verbs: exploring the limits of compositionality --; Ideophones and templatic morphology in Totonac --; Subtractive plural morphology in Sinhala --; The Dravidian zero negative: diachronic context of its morphogenesis and conceptualisation --; Relative root complement: a unique grammatical relation in Algonquian syntax --; Mawng lexicalised agreement in typological perspective --; Syllabic Obstruents in Ahtna Athabaskan --; The puzzle of two terms for red in Hungarian --; Possessive voice in Wolof: a rare type of valency operator --; Index
• Sumari: The papers in this book describe and analyze rara in individual languages, covering an extraordinarily broad geographic distribution, including papers about languages from all over the globe. The range of theoretical subjects discussed shows an enormous breadth, ranging from phonology through word formation, lexical semantics to syntax and even some sociolinguistics.
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110228557; 9783110238570; 9783110238457; 9783110636970; 9783110742961; 9783110233544; 9783110233551; 9783110233568; 9783110233605
• ISSN: 0933-761X
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110228557
• Accés: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Jan Wohlgemuth, Michael Cysouw.

The papers in this book describe and analyze rara in individual languages, covering an extraordinarily broad geographic distribution, including papers about languages from all over the globe. The range of theoretical subjects discussed shows an enormous breadth, ranging from phonology through word f...