Rara & Rarissima: Documenting the Fringes of Linguistic Diversity

Author/Contributor(s):	Wohlgemuth, Jan ; Cysouw, Michael
Publisher:	Walter de Gruyter
Date:	12/13/2010
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

The papers in this book describe and analyze rara in individuallanguages, covering an extraordinarily broad geographic distribution, including papers about languages from all over the globe. Therange of theoretical subjects discussed shows an enormous breadth, ranging from phonology through word formation, lexical semantics tosyntax and even some sociolinguistics