Chapter Quantitative explorations of the worldwide distribution of rare characteristics, or the exceptionality of northwestern European languages

• मुख्य लेखक: Cysouw, Michael (auth)
• अन्य लेखक: Wiese, Heike (संपादक), Simon, Horst J. (संपादक)
• स्वरूप: इलेक्ट्रोनिक पुस्तक अध्याय
• भाषा: अंग्रेज़ी
• प्रकाशित: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2011
• विषय: linguistics; Philosophy of language; General Linguistics
• ऑनलाइन पहुंच: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

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. F...