Markedness and Language Change by Viktor Elšik - ISBN: 9783110184525
Hardcover
Attempts to provide a comprehensive survey of markedness relations across various grammatical categories, in a sample of closely-related speech varieties. This book takes a typological approach to markedness, viewing it as a hierarchy among values that is conditioned by conceptual and cognitive universals.

Markedness and Language Change

The Romani Sample

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  • Hardcover

    498 pages

  • Release Date

    21 February 2006

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Summary

‘Markedness’ is a central notion in linguistic theory. This book is the first to provide a comprehensive survey of markedness relations across various grammatical categories, in a sample of closely-related speech varieties. It is based on a sample of over 100 dialects of Romani, collected and processed via the Romani Morpho-Syntax (RMS) Database - a comparative grammatical outline in electronic form, constructed by the authors between 2000-2004. Romani dialects provide an exciting sample …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9783110184525
ISBN-10:3110184524
Author:Viktor Elšik, Yaron Matras
Publisher:De Gruyter
Imprint:De Gruyter Mouton
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:498
Release Date:21 February 2006
Weight:830g
Dimensions:230mm x 155mm
Series:Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT]
About The Author

Viktor Elšik

Viktor Elšik teaches at the Univerzita Karlova, Prague, Czech Republic.

Yaron Matras is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Manchester, UK.

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