Scales and hierarchies : a cross-disciplinary perspective / edited by Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, Andrej L. Malchukov, Marc D. Richards.

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TextSeries: Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; ; 277.Publisher: Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (356 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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9783110344134
3110344130
9783110344141
3110344149
3110395002
9783110395006

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Scales and hierarchies.DDC classification:

410.1/8 23

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P128.H53 S33 2015

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ES 172

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Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- 1. Introduction / Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, Ina ; Malchukov, Andrej L. ; Richards, Marc D. -- 2. Typological evidence against universal effects of referential scales on case alignment / Bickel, Balthasar ; Witzlack-Makarevich, Alena ; Zakharko, Taras -- 3. Descriptive scales versus comparative scales / Haspelmath, Martin -- 4. Generalizing Scales / Cysouw, Michael -- 5. Differential Argument Encoding by Impoverishment / Keine, Stefan ; Müller, Gereon -- 6. Ø-Agreement in Turkana / Trommer, Jochen -- 7. Defective Agree, Case Alternations, and the Prominence of Person / Richards, Marc D. -- 8. Prefixes, Scales and Grammatical Theory / Biskup, Petr ; Zybatow, Gerhild -- 9. Argument Encoding in Direction Systems and Specificity-Driven Agree / Hamann, Jakob -- 10. Towards a typology of split ergativity: A TAM-hierarchy for alignment splits / Malchukov, Andrej L. -- 11. Split Marked-S Case Systems / Handschuh, Corinna -- 12. Scales in real-time language comprehension: A review / Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, Ina ; Schlesewsky, Matthias -- 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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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.