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Rethinking Universals: How Rarities Affect Linguistic Theory: 45 (Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT], 45) - Hardcover

Book 9 of 46: Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT]
 
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Synopsis

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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About the Author

Jan Wohlgemuth and Michael Cysouw, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.

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