Anti-contiguity

Jason Kandybowicz is Associate Professor of Linguistics at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. He specializes in the syntax of West African languages and has published extensively on a variety of topics in formal syntax, field linguistics, and the syntax-phonology interface. He is the author of The Grammar of Repetition: Nupe Grammar at the Syntax-Phonology Interface (2008) and co-editor of Africa's Endangered Languages: Documentary and Theoretical Approaches (OUP 2017).

• List of Abbreviations Used in Non-Cited Data Acknowledgments Map of Languages Covered in This Book Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Prosodic Entanglement and the Anti-Contiguity of Wh & C. Chapter 3: An Anti-Contiguity Approach to Tano In-Situ Interrogative Distribution Chapter 4: An Anti-Contiguity Approach to Nupe Interrogative Distribution Chapter 5: Anti-Contiguity Cross-Linguistically References.

This book is a very welcome contribution to research on the syntax-phonology interface. Empirically, it explores in depth a wealth of prosodic and syntactic data from lesser-described West African languages, and theoretically, it raises a number of important and challenging questions which will help guide future research. The approach taken in this work investigates core issues at the syntax-prosody interface in a way that engages seriously with insights from diverse subfields, including phonetics, phonology, prosody, syntax, and the syntax-phonology interface.