Scales and hierarchies: A cross-disciplinary perspective

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Author(s): Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, Andrej L. Malchukov, Marc D. Richards (eds)
Series: Trends in Linguistics 277
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Year: 2015

Language: English
Pages: 356 pages :
City: Ber

1 Introduction
2 Typological evidence against universal effects of referential scales on case alignment
3 Descriptive scales versus comparative scales
4 Generalizing Scales
5 Differential Argument Encoding by Impoverishment
6 Ø-Agreement in Turkana
7 Defective Agree, Case Alternations, and the Prominence of Person
8 Prefixes, Scales and Grammatical Theory
9 Argument Encoding in Direction Systems and Specificity-Driven Agree
10 Towards a typology of split ergativity: A TAM-hierarchy for alignment splits
11 Split Marked-S Case Systems
12 Scales in real-time language comprehension: A review
Subject index