Morphology and Its Interfaces

Morphology and Its Interfaces
Author: Alexandra Galani
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 365
Release: 2011
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 902725561X

One of the most striking trends across linguistic research in recent years has been the examination of the interfaces between the various subcomponents of the language faculty. Yet, approaches to these interfaces across different theoretical frameworks differ substantially. This volume pulls together research into Morphology and its interfaces from researchers employing a variety of different theoretical and methodological perspectives: Morphology is a diverse field, and rather than aiming to collect works sharing a particular approach or framework of assumptions, this collection instead captures the diversity and provides an overview of the state of the research field while also addressing particular empirical phenomena with up-to-date analyses. The articles collected provide case studies from a diverse variety of languages revealing properties of the interfaces that morphology shares with syntax, semantics, phonology, and the lexicon, while the volume's inclusive cross-theoretical approach will serve to introduce readers to the findings of alternative frameworks and methodologies.

Language History and Linguistic Modelling

Language History and Linguistic Modelling
Author: Raymond Hickey
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 2184
Release: 2010-12-14
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110820757

This work presents a collection of some 130 contributions covering a wide range of topics of interest to historical, theoretical and applied linguistics alike. A major theme is the development of English which is examined on several levels in the light of recent linguistic theory in various papers. The geographical dimension is also treated extensively with papers on controversial aspects of a variety of studies, as are topical linguistic matters from a more general perspective.

1989

1989
Author: Geert Booij
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2021-06-21
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 311242056X

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Syllable and Word Languages

Syllable and Word Languages
Author: Javier Caro Reina
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 387
Release: 2014-10-24
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110383950

This is the first volume concerned with the phonological typology of syllable and word languages, based on the model of a complex, multi-layered and hierarchically structured phonological system. The main typological claim is that the phonetic and phonological make-up of a language depends on the relevance of the prosodic categories. In previous research, the syllable and the phonological word have already proved to be typologically important. The contributions in this volume discuss theoretical questions and address issues such as the variable structure of the phonological word, the interplay between phonetics and phonology as well as the effect of a language’s phonological make-up on its morphology or lexicon. The volume provides detailed synchronic and diachronic analyses of (Non-)Indo-European languages which will serve as a basis for further typological research.

Central Catalan and Swabian

Central Catalan and Swabian
Author: Javier Caro Reina
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2019-07-08
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110573067

In contrast to previous approaches to phonological typology, the typology of syllable and word languages relates the patterns of syllable structure, phoneme inventory, and phonological processes to the relevance of the prosodic domains of the syllable and the phonological word. This volume proves how useful this kind of typology is for the understanding of language variation and change. By providing a synchronic and diachronic account of the syllable and the phonological word in Central Catalan (Catalan dialect group) and Swabian (Alemannic dialect group), the author shows how the evolution of Old Catalan and Old Alemannic can be explained in terms of a typological drift toward an increased relevance of the phonological word. Further, the description of Central Catalan and Swabian allows to identify common strategies for profiling the phonological word and thus makes an important contribution to research on prosodic phonology.

CLS

CLS
Author: Chicago Linguistic Society. Regional Meeting
Publisher:
Total Pages: 916
Release: 1992
Genre: Language and languages
ISBN:

Why We Don't Cardrive or Bookread, but Slavedrive and Lipread

Why We Don't Cardrive or Bookread, but Slavedrive and Lipread
Author: Angela Lamberty
Publisher: Büchner-Verlag
Total Pages: 381
Release: 2014-12-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3941310585

Compounding is a highly productive word-formation pattern in the English language. In light of this, it is counterintuitive that English lacks a general word-formation rule for genuine verbal compounds and those appear to be very rare. But for what reason does verbal composition disqualify as a productive word-formation pattern in English? How are verbal pseudo-compounds processed and what does this imply about the way in which newly coined genuine verbal compounds would be processed? What are the factors that determine and influence the processing of English verbal compounds and pseudo-compounds? This book adopts a fresh cognitive linguistic perspective on verbal compounding and investigates the above questions with the help of experimental methods. It offers a novel and cognitive linguistically based model of mental access to verbal compounds and tries to complement the prevailing structural and typological approaches by insights on language processing.