Challenges to Linearization (Hardcover)

The ten contributions in this volume focus on a range of linearization challenges, all of which aim to shed new light on the central, still largely mysterious question of how the abundant evidence that linguistic structures are hierarchically organised can plausibly be reconciled with the fact that actually realised linguistic strings are typically sequentially ordered. Some of the contributions present particularly challenging data, those on the mixed spoken and signed output of bimodal Italian children, Quechua nominal morphology, Kannada reduplication and Taqbaylit of Chemini "floating prepositions" all being cases in point. Others have a typological focus, highlighting and attempting to explain striking patterns like the Final-over-Final Constraint or considering the predictions of particular theoretical approacesh (the movement theory of Control, multidominance, Distributed Morphology) in relation to structures that we do and don't expect to be "possible linguistic structures". Broader architectural questions also receive attention from various perspectives. This volume will be of interest to advanced students and researchers with interests in the externalisation of ling

General

Imprint:	de Gruyter Mouton
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG]
Release date:	March 2013
First published:	2013
Editors:	Theresa Biberauer • Ian Roberts
Dimensions:	230 x 155mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	385
ISBN-13:	978-1-61451-310-0
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > General Books > Language & Literature > Literary & linguistic reference works > Usage guides
LSN:	1-61451-310-4
Barcode:	9781614513100

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