Screen LibraryScales and hierarchies : a cross-disciplinary perspective /
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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De Gruyter Mouton,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin/Boston : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2015] ©2015 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Trends in linguistics. studies and monographs [tilsm];
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| 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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1 online resource (v, 356 pages) : illustrations. Also available in print edition. |
| ISBN: | 9783110344134 |
| Index Number: | P128 |
| CLC: | H0 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- 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. -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. |