Language Universals and Variation

Inbunden, Engelska, 2002

Av Mengistu Amberber, Peter Collins, Australia) Collins, Peter (University of New South Wales

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Issues addressed in this contributed volume include lexical semantics, morphosyntax, and phonology based on the broad theme of formal approaches to language universals and variation. Aspects of natural language variation are investigated from a formal theoretical perspective, including the Principles and Parameters/Minimalist Program, Lexical Functional Grammar and Optimality Theory. A wide range of languages and language families are considered, including Amharic, Arabic, Bantu, Berber, Chamorro, English, French, Japanese, Malyalam, Polish, Spanish, Tagalog, Turkish, and Warlpiri.This is an important addition to the growing body of literature on language universals and variation from formal theoretical perspectives. It will be a useful reference to linguistics specialists and other cognitive scientists. The topics covered are also diverse, ranging from pronominal clitic variation in dialects of Spanish to passives in Bantu and Polish and the typology of Wh-in-situ questions and vowel place constraints.

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Utgivningsdatum2002-06-30
Mått156 x 235 x 20 mm
Vikt567 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SeriePerspectives on Cognitive Science
Antal sidor296
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9780275976828

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PrefaceQuirky Alternations of Transitivity: The Case of Ingestive Predicates by Mengistu AmberberExplaining Clitic Variation in Spanish by José Camacho and Liliana SánchezSlavic Passives, Bantu Passives, and Human Cognition by Peter KipkaThe Split VP Hypothesis: Evidence from Language Acquisition by Masatoshi KoizumiSyntactic Constraints in a "Free Word Order" Language by Mary LaughrenOn the Range and Variety of Cases Assigned by Adpositions by Alan LibertOptimality and Three Western Austronesian Case Systems by Anna MachlachlanAffixes, Clitics, and Bantu Morphosyntax by Sam MchomboTwo Types of Wh-in-situ by Masanori NakamuraVowel Place Contrasts by Keren RiceReferencesIndex of AuthorsIndex of Languages and Language FamiliesSubject Index