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Record Nr.

UNINA9910220023503321

Titolo

On looking into words (and beyond) [[electronic resource] ] : structures, relations, analyses / / edited by Claire Bowern, Laurence Horn, Raffaella Zanuttini

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Germany : , : Language Science Press, , 2017

ISBN

3-946234-97-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 609 pages) ; : illustrations, charts; digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Empirically Oriented Theoretical Morphology and Syntax ; ; volume 3

Disciplina

400

410

Soggetti

Linguistics

Grammar, Comparative and general - Morphology

Grammar, Comparative and general - Morphosyntax

Grammar, Comparative and general - Phonology

Cognitive science

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapter and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface --I. Phonology --II. Morphology --III. Syntax and morphosyntax --IV. Language and linguistic theory --Indexes.

Sommario/riassunto

On Looking into Words is a wide-ranging volume spanning current research into word structure and morphology, with a focus on historical linguistics and linguistic theory. The papers are offered as a tribute to Stephen R. Anderson, the Dorothy R. Diebold Professor of Linguistics at Yale, who is retiring at the end of the 2016-2017 academic year. The contributors are friends, colleagues, and former students of Professor Anderson, all important contributors to linguistics in their own right. As is typical for such volumes, the contributions span a variety of topics relating to the interests of the honorand. In this case, the central contributions that Anderson has made to so many areas of linguistics and cognitive science, drawing on synchronic and diachronic phenomena in diverse linguistic systems, are represented through the papers in the volume. The 26 papers that constitute this volume are



unified by their discussion of the interplay between synchrony and diachrony, theory and empirical results, and the role of diachronic evidence in understanding the nature of language. Central concerns of the volume include morphological gaps, learnability, increases and declines in productivity, and the interaction of different components of the grammar. The papers deal with a range of linked synchronic and diachronic topics in phonology, morphology, and syntax (in particular, cliticization), and their implications for linguistic theory.