Gradience in grammar [[electronic resource] ] : generative perspectives / / edited by Gisbert Fanselow ... [et al.]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910815207803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006
• ISBN: 0191515280; 9780191515286
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: x, 405 p. : ill
• Collana: Oxford linguistics
• Altri autori (Persone): FanselowGisbert
• Disciplina: 415/.0182
• Soggetti: Generative grammar; Gradience (Linguistics)
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [359]-393) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Gradience in Grammar -- Part I: The Nature of Gradience -- 2 Is there Gradient Phonology? -- 3 Gradedness: Interpretive Dependencies and Beyond -- 4 Linguistic and Metalinguistic Tasks in Phonology: Methods and Findings -- 5 Intermediate Syntactic Variants in a Dialect-Standard Speech Repertoire and Relative Acceptability -- 6 Gradedness and Optionality in Mature and Developing Grammars -- 7 Decomposing Gradience: Quantitative versus Qualitative Distinctions -- Part II: Gradience in Phonology -- 8 Gradient Perception of Intonation -- 9 Prototypicality Judgements as Inverted Perception -- 10 Modelling Productivity with the Gradual Learning Algorithm: The Problem of Accidentally Exceptionless Generalizations -- Part III: Gradience in Syntax -- 11 Gradedness as Relative Efficiency in the Processing of Syntax and Semantics -- 12 Probabilistic Grammars as Models of Gradience in Language Processing -- 13 Degraded Acceptability and Markedness in Syntax, and the Stochastic Interpretation of Optimality Theory -- 14 Linear Optimality Theory as a Model of Gradience in Grammar -- Part IV: Gradience in Wh-Movement Constructions -- 15 Effects of Processing Difficulty on Judgements of Acceptability -- 16 What's What? -- 17 Prosodic Influence on Syntactic Judgements -- References -- Index of Languages -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- W -- Index of Subjects -- A -- C ; -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Index of Names -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book represents the state of the art in the study of gradience in grammar: the degree to which utterances are acceptable or grammatical, and the relationship between acceptability and grammaticality. Part I seeks to clarify the nature of gradience from the perspectives of phonology, generative syntax, psycholinguistics, and sociolinguistics. Parts II and III examine issues in phonology and syntax. Part IV considers long movement from different methodologicalperspectives. The data discussed comes from a wide range of languages and dialects, and includes tone and stress patterns, word order variation, and question formation. The book will interest linguists concerned with the understanding of syntax, phonology, language variation and acquisition, discourse,and the operations of language within the mind.