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Subject(s)

• Hierarchy (Linguistics) [Browse]
• Grammar, Comparative and general—Case [Browse]
• Functionalism (Linguistics) [Browse]

Editor

• Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, Ina, 1979- [Browse]
• Malʹchukov, A. L. (Andreĭ Lʹvovich) [Browse]
• Richards, Marc [Browse]

Series

• Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 277. [More in this series]
• Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs, 1861-4302 ; 277 [More in this series]

Summary note

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.

Notes

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Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Language note

English

Contents

• Front matter
• 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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Other format(s)

Issued also in print.

ISBN

• 9783110395006
• 3110395002
• 9783110344134
• 3110344130

OCLC

• 898769771
• 979690268

Doi

10.1515/9783110344134

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