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Scales and Hierarchies

A Cross-Disciplinary Perspective
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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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I. Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, University of South Australia; A. Malchukov, University of Mainz; M. Richards, Queen’s University Belfast.

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    1. Introduction

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    Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, Andrej L. Malchukov and Marc D. Richards
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    2. Typological evidence against universal effects of referential scales on case alignment

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    Balthasar Bickel, Alena Witzlack-Makarevich and Taras Zakharko
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    3. Descriptive scales versus comparative scales

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    Martin Haspelmath
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    4. Generalizing Scales

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    Michael Cysouw
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    5. Differential Argument Encoding by Impoverishment

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    Stefan Keine and Gereon Müller
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    6. Ø-Agreement in Turkana

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    Jochen Trommer
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    7. Defective Agree, Case Alternations, and the Prominence of Person

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    Marc D. Richards
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    8. Prefixes, Scales and Grammatical Theory

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    Petr Biskup and Gerhild Zybatow
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    9. Argument Encoding in Direction Systems and Specificity-Driven Agree

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    Jakob Hamann
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    10. Towards a typology of split ergativity: A TAM-hierarchy for alignment splits

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    Andrej L. Malchukov
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    11. Split Marked-S Case Systems

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    Corinna Handschuh
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    12. Scales in real-time language comprehension: A review

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    Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky and Matthias Schlesewsky
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    Subject index

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https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110344134
eBook ISBN: 9783110344134
Hardcover ISBN: 9783110344004
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Keywords for this book
Language Variation; Case and Agreement Systems; Form and Function
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