Scales and Hierarchies: A Cross-Disciplinary Perspective

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2015

Scales and Hierarchies

A Cross-Disciplinary Perspective

Edited by: Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky , Andrej Malchukov and Marc D. Richards

Volume 277 in the series Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110344134

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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.

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I. Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, University of South Australia; A. Malchukov, University of Mainz; M. Richards, Queen’s University Belfast.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Table of contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
1. Introduction Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, Andrej L. Malchukov and Marc D. Richards Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Typological evidence against universal effects of referential scales on case alignment Balthasar Bickel, Alena Witzlack-Makarevich and Taras Zakharko Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
3. Descriptive scales versus comparative scales Martin Haspelmath Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
4. Generalizing Scales Michael Cysouw Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
5. Differential Argument Encoding by Impoverishment Stefan Keine and Gereon Müller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
6. Ø-Agreement in Turkana Jochen Trommer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
7. Defective Agree, Case Alternations, and the Prominence of Person Marc D. Richards Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
8. Prefixes, Scales and Grammatical Theory Petr Biskup and Gerhild Zybatow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
9. Argument Encoding in Direction Systems and Specificity-Driven Agree Jakob Hamann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
10. Towards a typology of split ergativity: A TAM-hierarchy for alignment splits Andrej L. Malchukov Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275
11. Split Marked-S Case Systems Corinna Handschuh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	297
12. Scales in real-time language comprehension: A review Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky and Matthias Schlesewsky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	321
Subject index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	353

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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Pages
- Front matter: 5
- Main content: 356
Keywords: Language Variation; Case and Agreement Systems; Form and Function

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Published: December 12, 2014
ISBN: 9783110344134

Hardcover

Published: November 17, 2014
ISBN: 9783110344004

Paperback

Published: June 26, 2017
ISBN: 9783110555417