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Identity Relations in Grammar (Hardcover)
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Identity Relations in Grammar (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG]
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Few concepts are as ubiquitous in the physical world of humans as
that of identity. Laws of nature crucially involve relations of
identity and non-identity, the act of identifying is central to
most cognitive processes, and the structure of human language is
determined in many different ways by considerations of identity and
its opposite. The purpose of this book is to bring together
research from a broad scale of domains of grammar that have a
bearing on the role that identity plays in the structure of
grammatical representations and principles. Beyond a great many
analytical puzzles, the creation and avoidance of identity in
grammar raise a lot of fundamental and hard questions. These
include: Why is identity sometimes tolerated or even necessary,
while in other contexts it must be avoided? What are the properties
of complex elements that contribute to configurations of identity
(XX)? What structural notions of closeness or distance determine
whether an offending XX-relation exists or, inversely, whether two
more or less distant elements satisfy some requirement of identity?
Is it possible to generalize over the specific principles that
govern (non-)identity in the various components of grammar, or are
such comparisons merely metaphorical? Indeed, can we define the
notion of identity in a formal way that will allow us to decide
which of the manifold phenomena that we can think of are genuine
instances of some identity (avoidance) effect? If identity
avoidance is a manifestation in grammar of some much more
encompassing principle, some law of nature, then how is it possible
that what does and what does not count as identical in the grammars
of different languages seems to be subject to considerable
variation?
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