Number in the world's languages a comparative handbook

Number in the world's languages a comparative handbook

The strong development in research on grammatical number in recent years has created a need for a unified perspective. The different frameworks, the ramifications of the theoretical questions, and the diversity of phenomena across typological systems, make this a significant challenge. This book add...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Acquaviva, Paolo, 1967-, Daniel, Michael
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; Boston Degruyter Mouton, [2022]
Series:Comparative handbooks of linguistics ; 5.
Subjects:
Grammar, Comparative and general > Number.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1 Number in the World's Languages: Configuring the variation space
  • I Africa
  • 2 Number in Eastern Dan
  • 3 Number marking in Karko and Nilo-Saharan
  • 4 Number in Tswana
  • II Europe and Middle East
  • 5 Number in Arabic
  • 6 Number in Occitan
  • 7 Number in Slovenian
  • 8 Number in West Circassian
  • III Northern Eurasia
  • 9 Number in Ket (Yeniseian)
  • 10 Number in Nganasan
  • 11 Number in Nivkh
  • IV Pacific and Australia
  • 12 Number in Gooniyandi
  • 13 Number in Indonesian
  • 14 Number in Japonic Family
  • 15 Number in the Languages of the Lower Sepik Family
  • 16 Number in Marori
  • V Americas
  • 17 Number in the languages of South America
  • 18 The category of number in Kakataibo (Panoan)
  • 19 Grammatical simplexity: Number in Kiowa
  • 20 Number in Mohawk (Iroquoian)
  • VI Further perspectives on linguistic diversity
  • 21 Contact languages: A survey
  • 22 Number in Russian Sign Language
  • 23 Number in grammar: results and perspectives
  • Terms
  • Languages and language families.

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