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The Substance of Language Volume II: Morphology, Paradigms, and Periphrases (Hardcover)
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The Substance of Language Volume II: Morphology, Paradigms, and Periphrases (Hardcover)
Series: The Substance of Language Volume II
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The Substance of Language Volume I: The Domain of Syntax Volume II:
Morphology Paradigms, and Periphrases Volume III: Phonology-Syntax
Analogies John M. Anderson The three volumes of The Substance of
Language collectively overhaul linguistic theory from phonology to
semantics and syntax to pragmatics and offer a full account of how
the form/function relationship works in language. Each explores the
consequences for the investigation of language of a conviction that
all aspects of linguistic structure are grounded in the
non-linguistic mental faculties on which language imposes its own
structure. The first and third look at how syntax and phonology are
fed by a lexical component that includes morphology and which
unites representations in the two planes. The second examines the
way morphology is embedded in the lexicon as part of the expression
of the lexicon-internal relationships of words. Morphology ,
Paradigms, and Periphrases is concerned with the role of the
lexicon, in particular its inflectional morphology, in mediating
between the substantively different categories of syntax and
phonology. In the first part of the book Professor Anderson looks
at the central role of the paradigm in reconciling the demands of
syntactic categorization with the available means of expression. He
examines the expressive role of inflection, illustrating his
argument with Old English verb morphology. In the second part of
the book the author pursues the notion of grammatical periphrasis.
He starts out from its role as a solver of the problem of defective
or incomplete paradigms and then compares it with other analytic
expressions. He concludes with a discussion of why studies of
grammatical periphrasis have focused on verbal constructions. He
looks at the mechanism by which grammatical periphrases compensate
for gaps in the finite verb paradigm and what this reveals about
the substantive differences between verbs and nouns. The many
detailed proposals of John Anderson's fine trilogy are derived from
an over-arching conception of the nature of linguistic knowledge
that is in turn based on the grounding of syntax in semantics and
the grounding of phonology in phonetics, both convincingly subsumed
under the notion of cognitive salience. The Substance of Language
is a major contribution to linguistic theory and the history of
linguistic thought.
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