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A typology of marked-S languages
This book started out as a PhD dissertation at Universität Leipzig by the same
title, which I submitted in December 2010 and successfully defended in July 2011.
The original dissertation has undergone minor revisions, but its contents have in
essence remained the same.
Many people have contributed to the work in its current state, : to all of whom I
would like to express my gratitude. The original research started out as part of the
project ‘Marked-absolutive and marked-nominative case systems in synchronic
and diachronic perspective’ of the Forschergruppe ‘Grammatik und Verarbeitung
verbaler Argumente’ in Leipzig. Financial support for my research has been provided
by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft through a grant to this project.
Michael Cysouw, who was the principal investigator of the project, has patiently
accompanied the development of the dissertation from the very beginning. He
has always provided me with much valued feedback on all aspect of my work
from methodological discussion to stylistic comments. Without his encouragement,
this work would probably not have been completed. The referees for the
dissertation were Martin Haspelmath and Helen de Hoop. Their comments during
and after the writing process, respectively, have been much appreciated and
greatly improved the final result.
The research for this book work was carried out during the heyday of the
Leipzig typology community. I was lucky to have had the opportunity to conduct
my research as a member of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology’s
linguistics department. Its excellent facilities and stimulating research
environment have contributed much to the completion of this work. Through
the Forschergruppe, I also had the chance to collaborate with the larger linguistic
community both at the University of Leipzig and the Max Planck Institute for
Human Cognitive and Brain Science.
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