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Competition in Syntax
Author | : Gereon Müller,Wolfgang Sternefeld |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2013-06-10 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9783110829068 |
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The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This branch of linguistics, broadly known as Generative Grammar, is concerned with the formulation of explanatory formal accounts of linguistic phenomena with the ulterior goal of gaining insight into the properties of the 'language organ'. The series comprises high quality monographs and collected volumes that address such issues. The topics in this series range from phonology to semantics, from syntax to information structure, from mathematical linguistics to studies of the lexicon.
Is the Best Good Enough
Author | : Pilar Barbosa |
Publsiher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0262522497 |
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These include new versions of an old debate between constraints on derivations and constraints on representations and entirely new questions about the nature of the candidate set, as well as questions about learnability and computability.
Phrase Structures in Competition
Author | : Susan Pintzuk |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2021-11-19 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781000525182 |
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First published in 1999. This book investigates variation and change in Old English word order, with special emphasis on the position of the verb.
Competition in Inflection and Word Formation
Author | : Franz Rainer,Francesco Gardani,Wolfgang U. Dressler,Hans Christian Luschützky |
Publsiher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2019-09-17 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9783030025502 |
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This is the first volume specifically dedicated to competition in inflection and word-formation, a topic that has increasingly attracted attention. Semantic categories, such as concepts, classes, and feature bundles, can be expressed by more than one form or formal pattern. This departure from the ideal principle "one form – one meaning" is particularly frequent in morphology, where it has been treated under diverse headings, such as blocking, Elsewhere Condition, Pāṇini's Principle, rivalry, synonymy, doublets, overabundance, suppletion and other terms. Since these research traditions, despite the heterogeneous terminology, essentially refer to the same underlying problems, this volume unites the phenomena studied in this field of linguistic morphology under the more general heading of competition. The volume features an extensive state of the art report on the subject and 11 research papers, which represent various theoretical approaches to morphology and address a wide range of aspects of competition, including morphophonology, lexicology, diachrony, language contact, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics and language acquisition.
Current Approaches to Syntax
Author | : András Kertész,Edith Moravcsik,Csilla Rákosi |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 616 |
Release | : 2019-05-06 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9783110540253 |
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Even though the range of phenomena syntactic theories intend to account for is basically the same, the large number of current approaches to syntax shows how differently these phenomena can be interpreted, described, and explained. The goal of the volume is to probe into the question of how exactly these frameworks differ and what if anything they have in common.Descriptions of a sample of current approaches to syntax are presented by their major practitioners (Part I) followed by their metatheoretical underpinnings (Part II). Given that the goal is to facilitate a systematic comparison among the approaches, a checklist of issues was given to the contributors to address. The main headings are Data, Goals, Descriptive Tools, and Criteria for Evaluation. The chapters are structured uniformly allowing an item-by-item survey across the frameworks. The introduction lays out the parameters along which syntactic frameworks must be the same and how they may differ and a final paper draws some conclusions about similarities and differences.The volume is of interest to descriptive linguists, theoreticians of grammar, philosophers of science, and studies of the cognitive science of science.
Optimality Theoretic Syntax
Author | : Geraldine Legendre,Jane Grimshaw,Sten Vikner |
Publsiher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 580 |
Release | : 2001-06-22 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0262263505 |
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Recent work in theoretical syntax has revealed the strong explanatory power of the notions of economy, competition, and optimization. Building grammars entirely upon these elements, Optimality Theory syntax provides a theory of universal grammar with a formally precise and strongly restricted theory of universal typology: cross-linguistic variation arises exclusively from the conflict among universal principles.Beginning with a general introduction to Optimality Theory syntax, this volume provides a comprehensive overview of the state of the art, as represented by the work of the leading developers of the theory. The broad range of topics treated includes morphosyntax (case, inflection, voice, and cliticization), the syntax of reference (control, anaphora, and pronominalization), the gammar of clauses (complementizers and their absence), and grammatical and discourse effects in word order. Among the theoretical themes running throughout are the interplay between faithfulness and markedness, and various questions of typology and of inventory. Contributors Peter Ackema, Judith Aissen, Eric Bakovic, Joan Bresnan, Hye-Won Choi, João Costa, Jane Grimshaw, Edward Keer, Géraldine Legendre, Gereon Müller, Ad Neeleman, Vieri Samek-Lodovici, Peter Sells, Margaret Speas, Sten Vikner, Colin Wilson, Ellen Woolford
The Syntax of Anaphora
Author | : Ken Safir,Professor of Linguistics Ken Safir |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press on Demand |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2004-04-08 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780195166132 |
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In this work, Ken Safir develops a comprehensive theory on the role of anaphora in syntax. First, he contends that the complementary distribution of forms that support the anaphoric readings is not accidental, contrary to most current thinking, but rather should be derived from a principle, one that he proposes in the form of an algorithm. Secondly, he maintains that dependent identity relations are always possible where they are not prohibited by a constraint. Lastly, he proposes that there are no parameters of anaphora - that all anaphora-specific principles are universal, and that the patterns of anaphora across languages arise entirely from a restricted set of lexical properties. This comprehensive consideration of anaphora redirects current thinking on the subject.
Competing Motivations in Grammar and Usage
Author | : Brian MacWhinney,Andreĭ Lʹvovich Malʹchukov,Edith A. Moravcsik |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780198709848 |
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This volume examines the conflicting factors that shape the content and form of grammatical rules in language, which speakers and addressees need to contend with when expressing themselves and when trying to comprehend messages. Chapters examine adult language, first and second language acquisition, and the motivations behind historical change.