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Referential scales and case alignment: reviewing the typological evidence

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2008
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Bickel, B., & Witzlack-Makarevich, A. (2008). Referential scales and case alignment: reviewing the typological evidence. In A. Malchukov & M. Richards (Eds.), Scales (No. 86; Issue 86, pp. 1–37). Institut für Linguistik der Universität Leipzig. http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~asw/lab/lab86/LAB86_Bickel_Witzlack.pdf

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It has often been claimed that the distribution of case marking is systematically affected by a universal scale of referential categories. This can be understood as a universal correlation between the odds of overt case marking and scale ranks (a negative correlation for subjects, a positive one for objects), or as an implicational universal proposing that, if a language has a split in case marking, this split fits a universal scale. We tested both claims with various versions of scale definitions against a sample of over 350 case sys

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  • Malchukov, Andrej
  • Richards, Marc

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Scales

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Leipzig

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37

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2013-04-25

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Linguistische Arbeitsberichte

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0138-4597

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Bickel, B., & Witzlack-Makarevich, A. (2008). Referential scales and case alignment: reviewing the typological evidence. In A. Malchukov & M. Richards (Eds.), Scales (No. 86; Issue 86, pp. 1–37). Institut für Linguistik der Universität Leipzig. http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~asw/lab/lab86/LAB86_Bickel_Witzlack.pdf

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