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Features - Perspectives on a Key Notion in Linguistics (Hardcover)
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Features - Perspectives on a Key Notion in Linguistics (Hardcover)
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This book presents a critical overview of current work on
linguistic features and establishes new bases for their use in the
study and understanding of language.
Features are fundamental components of linguistic description: they
include gender (feminine, masculine, neuter); number (singular,
plural, dual); person (1st, 2nd, 3rd); tense (present, past,
future); and case (nominative, accusative, genitive, ergative).
Despite their ubiquity and centrality in linguistic description,
much remains to be discovered about them: there is, for example, no
readily available inventory showing which features are found in
which of the world's languages; there is no consensus about how
they operate across different components of language; and there is
no certainty about how they interact. This book seeks at once to
highlight and to tackle these problems. It brings together
perspectives from phonology to formal syntax and semantics,
expounding the use of linguistic features in typology, computer
applications, and logic. Linguists representing different
standpoints spell out clearly the assumptions they bring to
different kinds of feature and describe how they use them. Their
contrasting contributions highlight the areas of difference and the
common ground between their perspectives.
The book brings together original work by leading international
scholars. It will appeal to linguists of all theoretical
persuasions.
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