Contemporary linguistic parameters
by Fábregas, Antonio Mateu i Giral, Jaume Putnam, Michael T.
"Parameters have lain at the core of linguistic research in the generative tradition for decades. The theoretical questions they have raised are deep and broad: this reference text investigates how contemporary linguistics has best tried to answer them. This book looks at how parameters might be properly defined and what their locus might be: lexical information, functional heads, the computational system, the phonological branch of the grammar. What kind of data forms trigger acquisition of a …
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- Full title :Contemporary linguistic parameters / edited by Antonio Fábregas, Jaume Mateu and Michael T. Putnam.
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"Parameters have lain at the core of linguistic research in the generative tradition for decades. The theoretical questions they have raised are deep and broad: this reference text investigates how contemporary linguistics has best tried to answer them. This book looks at how parameters might be properly defined and what their locus might be: lexical information, functional heads, the computational system, the phonological branch of the grammar. What kind of data forms trigger acquisition of a parameter? Are parameters necessary or can we study languages without making reference to them? The questions looked at are not just theoretical: how can a theory of parameters be used to help understand second language acquisition, and what contributions can it make to the study of language typology? This is the right time to gather all this information, dispersed in many different kinds of publications by single authors and groups, into one comprehensive volume."--Bloomsbury Publishing
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- Publication Date:2015
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- Publisher(s):Bloomsbury Academic, An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2015
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- Description:1 online resource
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781474219549, 1474219543, 9781472525901, 1472525906, 9781472532718, 1472532716, 1472533933, 9781472533937
- oclc:ocn925381628
- LC Classification:P295.5
- Dewey Decimal:410.18
Table of Contents
pt. I Prolegomena. 1."Parameters" in linguistic theory: What, where, and how / Michael T. Putnam -- pt. II Main morphosyntactic parameters. 2. Morphological parameters / Antonio Fabregas ; 3. Case. Ergative languages / Michelle Sheehan ; 4. Head directionality / Hubert Haider ; 5. Parameters and argument structure I: Motion predicates and resultatives / Jaume Mateu ; 6. Parameters and argument structure II: Causatives and applicatives / Maria Cristina Cuervo ; 7. The functional structure of the clause: Main issues / Martina Wiltschko ; 8. Extended projections of V: Inner Aspect / Jonathan E. MacDonald ; 9. Null subject / Roberta D'Alessandro ; 10. Head movement in the clausal domain / Juan Uriagereka ; 11. Wh-movement / Zeljko Boskovic ; 12. Topic and focus / Jordi Fortuny ; 13. The functional structure of N / Asya Pereltsvaig -- pt. III Parameters beyond morphosyntax. 14. Parameters in phonological analysis: Stress / Marc van Oostendorp ; 15. Parameters in language acquisition and language contact / Liliana Sanchez
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