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The Routledge Handbook of North American Languages is a one-stop
reference for linguists on those topics that come up the most
frequently in the study of the languages of North America
(including Mexico). This handbook compiles a list of contributors
from across many different theories and at different stages of
their careers, all of whom are well-known experts in North American
languages. The volume comprises two distinct parts: the first
surveys some of the phenomena most frequently discussed in the
study of North American languages, and the second surveys some of
the most frequently discussed language families of North America.
The consistent goal of each contribution is to couch the content of
the chapter in contemporary theory so that the information is
maximally relevant and accessible for a wide range of audiences,
including graduate students and young new scholars, and even senior
scholars who are looking for a crash course in the topics.
Empirically driven chapters provide fundamental knowledge needed to
participate in contemporary theoretical discussions of these
languages, making this handbook an indispensable resource for
linguistics scholars.
This volume explores the many ways by which natural languages
categorize nouns into genders or classes. A noun may belong to a
given class because of its logical or symbolic similarities with
other nouns, because it shares a similar morphological form with
other nouns, or simply through an arbitrary convention. The aim of
this book is to establish which functional or lexical categories
are responsible for this type of classification, especially along
the nominal syntactic spine. The book's contributors draw on data
from a wide range of languages, including Amharic, French, Gitksan,
Haro, Lithuanian, Japanese, Mi'kmaw, Persian, and Shona. Chapters
examine where in the nominal structure gender is able to function
as a classifying device, and how in the absence of gender, other
functional elements in the nominal spine come to fill that gap.
Other chapters focus on how gender participates in grammatical
concord and agreement phenomena. The volume also discusses semantic
agreement: hybrid agreement sometimes arises due to a distinction
that grammars encode between natural gender on the one hand and
grammatical gender on the other. The findings in the volume have
significant implications for syntactic theory and theories of
interpretation, and contribute to a greater understanding of the
interplay between inflection and derivation. The volume will be of
interest to theoretical linguists and typologists from advanced
undergraduate level upwards.
The Routledge Handbook of North American Languages is a one-stop
reference for linguists on those topics that come up the most
frequently in the study of the languages of North America
(including Mexico). This handbook compiles a list of contributors
from across many different theories and at different stages of
their careers, all of whom are well-known experts in North American
languages. The volume comprises two distinct parts: the first
surveys some of the phenomena most frequently discussed in the
study of North American languages, and the second surveys some of
the most frequently discussed language families of North America.
The consistent goal of each contribution is to couch the content of
the chapter in contemporary theory so that the information is
maximally relevant and accessible for a wide range of audiences,
including graduate students and young new scholars, and even senior
scholars who are looking for a crash course in the topics.
Empirically driven chapters provide fundamental knowledge needed to
participate in contemporary theoretical discussions of these
languages, making this handbook an indispensable resource for
linguistics scholars.
The chapters in this volume address the process of syntactic change
at different granularities. The language-particular component of a
grammar is now usually assumed to be nothing more than the
specification of the grammatical properties of a set of lexical
items. Accordingly, grammar change must reduce to lexical change.
And yet these micro-changes can cumulatively alter the typological
character of a language (a macro-change). A central puzzle in
diachronic syntax is how to relate macro-changes to micro-changes.
Several chapters in this volume describe specific micro-changes:
changes in the syntactic properties of a particular lexical item or
class of lexical items. Other chapters explore links between
micro-change and macro-change, using devices such as grammar
competition at the individual and population level, recurring
diachronic pathways, and links between acquisition biases and
diachronic processes. This book is therefore a great companion to
the recent literature on the micro- versus macro-approaches to
parameters in synchronic syntax. One of its important contributions
is the demonstration of how much we can learn about synchronic
linguistics through the way languages change: the case studies
included provide diachronic insight into many syntactic
constructions that have been the target of extensive recent
synchronic research, including tense, aspect, relative clauses,
stylistic fronting, verb second, demonstratives, and negation.
Languages discussed include several archaic and contemporary
Romance and Germanic varieties, as well as Greek, Hungarian, and
Chinese, among many others.
This volume explores the many ways by which natural languages
categorize nouns into genders or classes. A noun may belong to a
given class because of its logical or symbolic similarities with
other nouns, because it shares a similar morphological form with
other nouns, or simply through an arbitrary convention. The aim of
this book is to establish which functional or lexical categories
are responsible for this type of classification, especially along
the nominal syntactic spine. The book's contributors draw on data
from a wide range of languages, including Amharic, French, Gitksan,
Haro, Lithuanian, Japanese, Mi'kmaw, Persian, and Shona. Chapters
examine where in the nominal structure gender is able to function
as a classifying device, and how in the absence of gender, other
functional elements in the nominal spine come to fill that gap.
Other chapters focus on how gender participates in grammatical
concord and agreement phenomena. The volume also discusses semantic
agreement: hybrid agreement sometimes arises due to a distinction
that grammars encode between natural gender on the one hand and
grammatical gender on the other. The findings in the volume have
significant implications for syntactic theory and theories of
interpretation, and contribute to a greater understanding of the
interplay between inflection and derivation. The volume will be of
interest to theoretical linguists and typologists from advanced
undergraduate level upwards.
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