Scales and hierarchies : a cross-disciplinary perspective

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

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 v...

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Other Authors: Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, Ina, 1979- (Editor), Malʹchukov, A. L. (Andreĭ Lʹvovich) (Editor), Richards, Marc (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, [2015]
Series:Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 277.
Subjects:
Hierarchy (Linguistics)
Grammar, Comparative and general > Case.
Functionalism (Linguistics)
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Historical & Comparative.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Case
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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