Minimal Indirect Reference - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Minimal Indirect Reference write by Amanda Seidl. This book was released on 2013-12-16. Minimal Indirect Reference available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
A Guide to Morphosyntax-phonology Interface Theories
A Guide to Morphosyntax-phonology Interface Theories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Guide to Morphosyntax-phonology Interface Theories write by Tobias Scheer. This book was released on 2011. A Guide to Morphosyntax-phonology Interface Theories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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)?
The Grammar of Repetition
The Grammar of Repetition - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Grammar of Repetition write by Jason Kandybowicz. This book was released on 2008. The Grammar of Repetition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Phonology and Syntax
Phonology and Syntax - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Phonology and Syntax write by Elisabeth O. Selkirk. This book was released on 1986-01-01. Phonology and Syntax available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
On the Nature of the Syntax-phonology Interface
On the Nature of the Syntax-phonology Interface - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook On the Nature of the Syntax-phonology Interface write by Željko Bošković. This book was released on 2001. On the Nature of the Syntax-phonology Interface available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
