Author : Amanda Seidl
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 23,41 MB
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1136710213
This book investigates the nature of the relationship between phonology and syntax and proposes a theory of Minimal Indirect Reference that solves many classic problems relating to the topic.
Author : Tobias Scheer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 902 pages
File Size : 43,70 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110238624
This book reviews the history of the interface between morpho-syntax and phonology roughly since World War II. Structuralist and generative interface thinking is presented chronologically, but also theory by theory from the point of view of a historically interested observer who however in the last third of the book distills lessons in order to assess present-day interface theories, and to establish a catalogue of properties that a correct interface theory should or must not have. The book also introduces modularity, the rationalist theory of the (human) cognitive system that underlies the generative approach to language, from a Cognitive Science perspective. Modularity is used as a referee for interface theories in the book. Finally, the book locates the interface debate in the landscape of current minimalist syntax and phase theory and fosters intermodular argumentation: how can we use properties of morpho-syntactic theory in order to argue for or against competing theories of phonology (and vice-versa)?
Author : Elisabeth O. Selkirk
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 23,48 MB
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780262690980
A fundamentally new approach to the theory of phonology and its relation to syntax is developed in this book, which is the first to address the question of the relation between syntax and phonology in a systematic way.This general theory differs from its predecessors in the generative tradition in several respects. By arguing that the intonational structure of a sentence determines certain aspects of its stress pattern or rhythmic structure, and not vice versa, it provides a novel view of the intonation-stress relation. It also offers a new theory of the focus-prosody relation that solves a variety of classic puzzles and involves an appeal to the place of a focused constituent in the predicate-argument structure of the sentence. The book also includes other novel features, among them a development of the metrical grid theory of stress (including a complete treatment of English word stress in this framework), the representation of juncture in terms of "silent" positions in the metrical grid (with a treatment of sandhi in terms of this rhythmic juncture), and a "rhythmic" nonsyntactic approach to the basic phonology of function words in EnglishElisabeth 0. Selkirk is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. This book is tenth in the series, Current Studies in Linguistics.
Author : Željko Bošković
Publisher : Brill Academic Pub
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 12,45 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780080439358
The theoretical domain of investigation of this volume is the nature of the syntax-phonology interface. The empirical domain of investigation is cliticization in South Slavic. The central theoretical questions are how syntax and phonology interact and whether PF can affect word order.
Author : Jason Kandybowicz
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 45,14 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027255199
Displacement is a fundamental property of grammar. Typically, when an occurrence moves it is pronounced in only one environment. This was previously viewed as a primitive/irreducible property of grammar. Recent work, however, suggests that it follows from principled interactions between the syntactic and phonological components of grammar. As such, the phonetic character of movement chains can be seen as both a reflection of and probe into the syntax-phonology interface. This volume deals with repetition, an atypical outcome of movement operations in which displaced elements are pronounced multiple times. Although cross-linguistically rare, the phenomenon obtains robustly in Nupe, a Benue-Congo language of Nigeria. Repetition raises a tension of the descriptive-explanatory variety. In order to achieve both measures of adequacy, movement theory must be supplemented with an account of the conditions that drive and constrain multiple pronunciation. This book catalogs these conditions, bringing to light a number of undocumented aspects of Nupe grammar.
Author : Hongming Zhang
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 23,41 MB
Release : 2016-11-25
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1351776207
This book centers on theoretical issues of phonology-syntax interface based on tone sandhi in Chinese dialects. It uses patterns in tone sandhi to study how speech should be divided into domains of various sizes or levels. Tone sandhi refers to tonal changes that occur to a sequence of adjacent syllables or words. The size of this sequence (or the domain) is determined by various factors, in particular the syntactic structure of the words and the original tones of the words. Chinese dialects offer a rich body of data on tone sandhi, and hence great evidence for examining the phonology-syntax interface, and for examining the resulting levels of domains (the prosodic hierarchy). Syntax-Phonology Interface: Argumentation from Tone Sandhi in Chinese Dialects is an extremely valuable text for graduate students and scholars in the fields of linguistics and Chinese.
Author : Gillian Ramchand
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 37,16 MB
Release : 2007-02-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0199247455
'The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Interfaces' explores how the core components of the language faculty interact. This book shows how these interactions are reflected in linguistic and cognitive theory, considers what they reveal, and looks at their reflections in expression and communication.
Author : M. Frascarelli
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 18,75 MB
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9401595003
"...this work represents a key case study in the study of the prosody and syntax interactions." (Pilar Prieto, Lingua 115, 2005)
Author : Itamar Kastner
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 31,58 MB
Release :
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3961102570
This books presents the most comprehensive description and analysis to date of Hebrew morphology, with an emphasis on the verbal templates. Its aim is to develop a theory of argument structure alternations which is anchored in the syntax but has systematic interfaces with the phonology and the semantics. Concretely, the monograph argues for a specific formal system centered around possible values of the head Voice. The formal assumptions are as similar as possible to those made in work on non-Semitic languages. The first part of the book (four chapters) is devoted to Hebrew; the second part (two chapters) compares the current theory with other approaches to Voice and argument structure in the recent literature.
Author : Yosuke Sato
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 28,46 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027255385
"Empirically rich, analytically sophisticated, and theoretically necessary. A major step forward in minimalist theorizing." --
