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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT] ; 46Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2010]Copyright date: ©2011Description: 1 online resource (408 p.)Content type:
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  • 9783110228540
  • 9783110228557
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 415 22/ger
LOC classification:
  • P204 .R38 2010eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
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
Summary: 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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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

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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