A Guide to Morphosyntax-Phonology Interface Theories - How Extra-Phonological Information is Treated in Phonology since Trubetzkoy's Grenzsignale (Hardcover)

This book reviews the history of the interface between morpho-syntax and phonology roughly since World War II. Structuralist and generative interface thinking is presented chronologically, but also theory by theory from the point of view of a historically interested observer who however in the last third of the book distills lessons in order to assess present-day interface theories, and to establish a catalogue of properties that a correct interface theory should or must not have. The book also introduces modularity, the rationalist theory of the (human) cognitive system that underlies the generative approach to language, from a Cognitive Science perspective. Modularity is used as a referee for interface theories in the book. Finally, the book locates the interface debate in the landscape of current minimalist syntax and phase theory and fosters intermodular argumentation: how can we use properties of morpho-syntactic theory in order to argue for or against competing theories of phonology (and vice-versa)?

General

Imprint:	de Gruyter Mouton
Country of origin:	Germany
Release date:	December 2010
First published:	2011
Authors:	Tobias Scheer
Dimensions:	240 x 170 x 53mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	900
ISBN-13:	978-3-11-023862-4
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Grammar, syntax, linguistic structure > General
LSN:	3-11-023862-4
Barcode:	9783110238624

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