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Scales and Hierarchies : A Cross-Disciplinary Perspective / ed. by Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, Andrej Malchukov, Marc D. Richards.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ; 277Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2014]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (356 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110344004
  • 9783110395006
  • 9783110344134
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 410.181 S281 23
LOC classification:
  • P128.H53 S33 2015
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- 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
Summary: 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.
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Frontmatter -- 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

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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