25_[9783110219098 - Expecting the Unexpected Exceptions in Grammar] Quantitative explorations.pdf

In this article, the distribution of rare features among the world’s languages is investigated based on the data from the World Atlas of Language Structures (Haspelmath et al. 2005). A Rarity Index for a language is defined, resulting in a listing of the world’s languages by mean rarity. Further, a...

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Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2019

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