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Markedness and language change : the Romani sample /
The book challenges the conventional notion of Markedness- a very central albeit controversial concept in linguistic theory. The authors investigate the structural representation of a selection of semantic categories in a sample of some 100 varieties of Romani, which have been separated and disperse...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; New York :
Mouton de Gruyter,
©2006.
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| Colección: | Empirical approaches to language typology ;
32. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Ch. 1. Introduction : markedness and asymmetry in language
- Ch. 2. The markedness hypothesis
- Ch. 3. Toward a communication-based model of asymmetry in language
- Ch. 4. The sample : methodological considerations
- Ch. 5. Early Romani
- Ch. 6. Number
- Ch. 7. Person
- Ch. 8. Gender
- Ch. 9. Degree
- Ch. 10. Negation
- Ch. 11. Cardinality
- Ch. 12. Discreteness
- Ch. 13. Tense, aspect, and mood
- Ch. 14. Modality
- Ch. 15. Transitivity
- Ch. 16. Case and case roles
- Ch. 17. Localisation
- Ch. 18. Orientation
- Ch. 19. Indefiniteness
- Ch. 20. Ontological category
- Ch. 21. Lexicality
- Ch. 22. Associativity
- Ch. 23. Chronological compartmentalisation
- Ch. 24. Criteria for asymmetry and their distribution across categories
- Ch. 25. Patterns of asymmetry
- Ch. 26. Conceptual motivations for asymmetry
- Ch. 27. Concluding remarks.