Thomas Berg

Structure in Language

A Dynamic Perspective

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The focus of this book is on structural representations, in particular their hierarchicalness and their branching direction, and structure sensitivity is argued to be highly variable both within and across languages and consequently an unlikely candidate for a defining property of human language.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 396
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. September 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780415542241
• ISBN-10: 0415542243
• Artikelnr.: 35455129

Autorenporträt

Thomas Berg is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Hamburg and is the author of Language Structure and Change.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Chapter One: A Structural Model of Language Production
Chapter Two: Constituent Structure and Branching Direction in English
Chapter Three: Level-specific Differences in Hierarchicalness
Chapter Four: Structural Variation across Time
Chapter Five: Structural Variation across Languages
Chapter Six: Branching Direction (and Hierarchicalness) from a Typological
Perspective
Chapter Seven: How Structure is Acquired
Chapter Eight: How Structure Breaks Down
Chapter Nine: Structure across Output Modalities
Chapter Ten: The Whys and Wherefores of Structure
Notes
Bibliography
Index