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The Syntax-Information Structure Interface
Evidence from Spanish and English
In the last decade, the notions of topic and focus have come to play an increasingly relevant role in theoretical linguistics. Although these notions are… read more2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97095-2 (Routledge)
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Lenition and Contrast
The Functional Consequences of Certain Phonetically Conditioned Sound Changes
This book analyzes 153 languages from a large variety of families to establish a previously unexplored relationship between phonetically conditioned sound changes such as lenitions… read more2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97099-0 (Routledge)
Discourse Function & Syntactic Form in Natural Language Generation
Users of natural languages have many word orders with which to encode the same truth-conditional meaning. They choose contextually appropriate strings from these many ways… read more2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97104-1 (Routledge)
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The Inflected Infinitive in Romance Languages
This book investigates two prominent issues with regard to the inflected infinitive-the syntactic distribution of the Portuguese inflected infinitive, and its origin and development from… read more2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97106-5 (Routledge)
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Lexical, Pragmatic, and Positional Effects on Prosody in Two Dialects of Croatian and Serbian
An Acoustic Study
This book looks at the interaction between pragmatics, prosody, and lexical contrast as factors that condition variation in pitch and duration in two closely related… read more2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97117-1 (Routledge)
Manifestations of Genericity
Manifestations of Genericity offers a unified analysis of minimally contrasting generic sentences with indefinite singular (IS) and bare plural (BP) subjects-as in "A bird flies"… read more2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96777-8 (Routledge)
Causes and Consequences of Word Structure
This book explores effects of speech perception strategies upon morphological structure. Using connectionist modeling, perception and production experiments, and calculations over lexica, Jennifer Hay investigates… read more2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96788-4 (Routledge)
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The Phonetics and Phonology of Gutturals
A Case Study from Ju|'hoansi
This book is the first detailed investigation and description of phonotactic sound patterns affecting Khoesan click consonant inventories. It also includes the first quantitative study… read more2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96793-8 (Routledge)
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Origins of Predicates
Evidence from Plains Cree
This book offers a new perspective on natural language predicates by analyzing data from the Plains Cree language. Contrary to traditional understanding, Cree verbal complexes… read more2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96779-2 (Routledge)
True to Form
Rising and Falling Declaratives as Questions in English
This book is concerned with the meaning and use of two kinds of declarative sentences:1) It's raining?
2) It's raining.
The difference… read more
2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96781-5 (Routledge)