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Rethinking universals : how rarities affect linguistic theory /
Rarissima and rara, features and properties found only in one or very few languages, tell us as much about the capacities and limits of human language(s) as do universals. Explaining the existence of such rare phenomena on the one hand, and the fact of their rareness or uniqueness on the other, prov...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Berlin ; New York :
De Gruyter Mouton,
©2010.
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| Colección: | Empirical approaches to language typology ;
45. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Rarissima and rara, features and properties found only in one or very few languages, tell us as much about the capacities and limits of human language(s) as do universals. Explaining the existence of such rare phenomena on the one hand, and the fact of their rareness or uniqueness on the other, proves a reasonable and interesting challenge to any theory of how human language works. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 288 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9783110220933 3110220938 1282716360 9781282716360 9786612716362 6612716363 |