Rethinking universals how rarities affect linguistic theory - Wohlgemuth, Jan.; Cysouw, Michael (Berlin, [Germany] De Gruyter Mouton, 2010)
The other end of universals: theory and typology of rara / Michael Cysouw & Jan Wohlgemuth -- Rarities in numeral systems / Harald Hammarstr?om -- Additional rarities in the typology of numerals / Thomas Hanke -- Explaining typologically unusual structures: the role of probability / Alice C. Harris -- Right at the left edge: initial consonant mutations in the languages of the world / Pavel Iosad -- "Quirky" case: rare phenomena in case-marking and their implications for a theory of typological distributions / Andrej Malchukov -- Negatives without negators / Matti Miestamo -- Accounting for rare typological features in formal syntax: three strategies and some general remarks / Frederick J. Newmeyer -- Rara and grammatical theory / Jan Rijkhoff -- Pairwise comparisons of typological profiles / S?ren Wichmann & Eric W. Holman -- Language endangerment, community size and typological rarity / Jan Wohlgemuth.
Keywords: Typology (Linguistics).; Linguistic universals; Grammar, Comparative and general