<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Dear Peter,<div><br></div><div>I’m not aware of the source you have in mind, but maybe such statement can be simply logically inferred?</div><div>A feature being “typologically rare” means fewer lects have it.</div><div>A family being smaller or isolate means it has fewer lects (minimally one).</div><div>Also, features are commonly shared by the lects of the same family, by the virtue of common heritage.</div><div>So smaller family = smaller sibling lects to share inherited features with = more likely to have “rare” features.</div><div>For example, if all Indo-European lects suddenly disappeared except for English, English would be one of the very few lects with typically Indo-European traits (along with some other lects that happen to share them due to contact or coincidence).</div><div><br></div><div>From Japan,</div><div>Ian</div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="direction: ltr;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- - - - -</span></div><div style="direction: ltr;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">JOO, IAN 朱易安</span></div><div style="direction: ltr;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Lecturer 助教</span></div><div style="direction: ltr;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Faculty of International Studies 国際学部</span></div><div style="direction: ltr;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Nagoya University of Commerce and Business 名古屋商科大学</span></div><div style="direction: ltr;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Nisshin, Aichi, Japan 愛知県日進市</span></div><div style="direction: ltr;"><span dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">https://ianjoo.github.io</span></div><div style="direction: ltr;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- - - - -</span></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">20.11.2023 19:55, Peter Arkadiev <peterarkadiev@yandex.ru> 작성:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div>Dear typologists,</div><div> </div><div>I vaguely recall having read or heard that it has been claimed that small language families and language isolates have a greater probability of possessing typologically unusual and rare features, however, I cannot locate any references discussing this issue (the two volumes of Rara et Rarissima published in 2010 do not, as far as I can tell). I would be grateful for any references that either espouse such a claim or explicitly disconfirm it.</div><div> </div><div>Thanks in advance!</div><div> </div><div>Peter</div><div> </div><div>-- </div><div>Peter Arkadiev, PhD Habil.</div><div>https://peterarkadiev.github.io/</div><div> </div>
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