Language description informed by theory

by Guillemin, Diana Pensalfini, Robert J. Turpin, Myfany

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Full title :Language description informed by theory. / Rob Pensalfini ; Myfany Turpin ; Diana Guillemin.

Summary

This volume explores how linguistic theories inform the ways in which languages are described. Theories, as representations of linguistic categories, guide the field linguist to look for various phenomena without presupposing their necessary existence and provide the tools to account for various sets of data across different languages. A goal of linguistic description is to represent the full range of language structures for any given language. The chapters in this book cover various sub-disciplines of linguistics including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, language acquisition, and anthropological linguistics, drawing upon theoretical approaches such as prosodic Phonology, Enhancement theory, Distributed Morphology, Minimalist syntax, Lexical Functional Grammar, and Kinship theory. The languages described in this book include Australian languages (Pama-Nyungan and non-Pama-Nyungan), Romance languages as well as English. This volume will be of interest to researchers in both descriptive and theoretical linguistics.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2014

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):John Benjamins Publishing Compant
Place of Publication:Amsterdam
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2014

The Physical Object

Description:377 pages : : illustrations, maps ; : 25 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9789027206145, 9027206147
oclc:ocn881243686
Dewey Decimal:410

Machine generated contents note: Evaluating the Bilingual Education Program in Warlpiri schools / Samantha Disbray -- pt. 1 Phonology -- Phonological aspects of Arandic baby talk / April Ngampart Campbell -- Prestopping of nasals and laterals is only partly parallel / Erich Round -- pt. 2 Morphology -- Liminal pronoun systems: Evidence from Garrwa / Ilana Mushin -- Verbs as spatial deixis markers in Jingulu / Rob Pensalfini -- The reconstruction of inflectional classes in morphology: History, method and Pama-Nyungan (Australian) verbs / Harold Koch -- pt. 3 Syntax -- Marking Definiteness or Specificity, not necessarily both: Evidence of a principle of economy from Mauritian Creole / Diana Guillemin -- Theory and experiment in parametric minimalism: The case of Romance negation / Giuseppe Longobardi -- Serial verbs in Wambaya / Rachel Nordlinger -- Nominals as adjuncts or arguments: Further evidence from language mixing / Felicity Meakins -- pt. 4 Semantics.

Contents note continued: The case of the invisible postman: The current status of the French future tense / Lynn Wales -- Manner and result: The view from clean / Malka Rappaport Hovav -- pt. 5 Anthropological linguistics -- S…