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Kartvelian languages --- -South Caucasian languages --- Caucasian languages --- Case --- Asian languages --- South Caucasian languages --- Indo-European languages --- Historical linguistics --- Grammar --- Dialectology --- Case. --- Kartvelian languages - Case

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In this major new work Alice Harris and Lyle Campbell set out to establish a general framework for the investigation of linguistic change. Systematic cross-linguistic comparison of syntactic change across a wide variety of languages is used to construct hypotheses about the universals and limits of language change more generally. In particular, the authors seek to move closer towards describing the range of causes of syntactic change to develop an understanding of the mechanisms of syntactic change, and to provide an understanding of why some languages undergo certain changes and not others. The authors draw on languages as diverse as Pipil and French, Georgian and Estonian, and the data presented is one of the book's great strengths. Rigor and precision are combined here with a great breadth of scholarship to produce a unique resource for the study of linguistic change, which will be of use to scholars and students alike.

Historical linguistics --- Comparative linguistics --- Grammar --- Historische linguïstiek --- Historische taalwetenschap --- Linguistics [Historical ] --- Linguistique historique --- Linguïstiek [Historische ] --- Taalwetenschap [Historische ] --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Syntaxe --- Syntax --- Historical linguistics. --- Syntax. --- Diachronic linguistics --- Dynamic linguistics --- Evolutionary linguistics --- Language and languages --- Language and history --- Linguistics --- History --- Grammar [Comparative and general ] --- Arts and Humanities --- Language & Linguistics --- Philology --- Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax. --- Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax

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Universals of language have been studied extensively for the last four decades, allowing fundamental insight into the principles and general properties of human language. Only incidentally have researchers looked at the other end of the scale. And even when they did, they mostly just noted peculiar facts as ''quirks'' or ''unusual behavior'', without making too much of an effort at explaining them beyond calling them ''exceptions'' to various rules or generalizations. Rarissima and rara, features and properties found only in one or very few languages, tell us as much about the capacities and limits of human language(s) as do universals. Explaining the existence of such rare phenomena on the one hand, and the fact of their rareness or uniqueness on the other, is a reasonable and interesting challenge to any theory of how human language works. The present volume for the first time compiles selected papers on the study of rare linguistic features from various fields of linguistics and from a wide range of languages.

Grammar, Comparative and general. --- Grammar, Comparative. --- Linguistic universals. --- Typology (Linguistics). --- Typology (Linguistics) --- Linguistic universals --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Languages & Literatures --- Philology & Linguistics --- Comparative grammar --- Grammar --- Grammar, Philosophical --- Grammar, Universal --- Language and languages --- Philosophical grammar --- Universals (Linguistics) --- Linguistic typology --- Grammar, Comparative --- Universals --- Typology --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Classification --- Historical Linguistics. --- Language Typology. --- Linguistic Theories. --- Typologie (linguistique) --- Universaux (linguistique)