Rara & Rarissima
Documenting the Fringes of Linguistic Diversity
1st Edition
Published on 23. December 2010
XIII, 408 pages
978-3-11-022855-7 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin/Boston
Germany
Publishing group
de Gruyter Mouton
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Illustrations
106 s/w Tabellen, 14 Abbildungen
14 ill., 106 tbl.
File size
7,76 MB
ISBN-13
978-3-11-022855-7 (9783110228557)
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Persons
Jan Wohlgemuth and Michael Cysouw, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Content
- Intro
- 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 Hocak
- 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
- Subject index
- Language index
