Bornkessel-Schlesewsky Ina, Malchukov Andrej, Richards Marc D. (Eds). Scales and Hierarchies: A Cross-Disciplinary Perspective

De Gruyter Mouton, 2014. — 363 p. — (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] 276).The volume advances our understanding of the role of scales and hierarchies across the linguistic sciences. Although scales and hierarchies are widely assumed to play a role in the modelling of linguistic phenomena, their status remains controversial, and it is these controversies that the present volume tackles head-on.