Language Universals and Variation

Herausgeber: Amberber, Mengistu; Collins, Peter

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Issues addressed in this contributed volume include lexical semantics, morphosyntax, and phonology based on the broad theme of formal approaches to language universals and variation. Aspects of natural language variation are investigated from a formal theoretical perspective, including the Principles and Parameters/Minimalist Program, Lexical Functional Grammar and Optimality Theory. A wide range of languages and language families are considered, including Amharic, Arabic, Bantu, Berber, Chamorro, English, French, Japanese, Malyalam, Polish, Spanish, Tagalog, Turkish, and Warlpiri. This is an important addition to the growing body of literature on language universals and variation from formal theoretical perspectives. It will be a useful reference to linguistics specialists and other cognitive scientists. The topics covered are also diverse, ranging from pronominal clitic variation in dialects of Spanish to passives in Bantu and Polish and the typology of Wh-in-situ questions and vowel place constraints.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 610g
• ISBN-13: 9780275976835
• ISBN-10: 0275976831
• Artikelnr.: 22214422

Autorenporträt

MENGISTU AMBERBER is a lecturer in linguistics at the School of Modern Language Studies at the University of New South Wales, Australia. PETER COLLINS is Associate Professor of Linguistics and Head of the Linguistics Department at the University of New South Wales, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Quirky Alternations of Transitivity: The Case of Ingestive
Predicates by Mengistu Amberber Explaining Clitic Variation in Spanish by
José Camacho and Liliana Sánchez Slavic Passives, Bantu Passives, and Human
Cognition by Peter Kipka The Split VP Hypothesis: Evidence from Language
Acquisition by Masatoshi Koizumi Syntactic Constraints in a "Free Word
Order" Language by Mary Laughren On the Range and Variety of Cases Assigned
by Adpositions by Alan Libert Optimality and Three Western Austronesian
Case Systems by Anna Machlachlan Affixes, Clitics, and Bantu Morphosyntax
by Sam Mchombo Two Types of Wh-in-situ by Masanori Nakamura Vowel Place
Contrasts by Keren Rice References Index of Authors Index of Languages and
Language Families Subject Index