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  1. Telicity and Durativity

    A Study of Aspect in Dëne Suliné (Chipewyan) and German

    By Andrea Luise Wilhelm

    Series: Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics

    This book studies the linguistic representation of events by examining the relevance of two salient event characteristics-- telicity and durativity-- to the grammatical system of natural language. The study of events, and of event characteristics, is an important testing ground for theories on the...

    Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge

  2. Artificial Hearing, Natural Speech

    Cochlear Implants, Speech Production, and the Expectations of a High-Tech Society

    By Joanna Hart Lowenstein

    Series: Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics

    This book explores the interface between speech perception and production through a longitudinal acoustic analysis of the speech of postlingually deaf adults with cochlear implants (electrode and computer prostheses for the inner ear in cases of nerve deafness). The methodology is based on the work...

    Published March 20th 2013 by Routledge

  3. Interactions between Markedness and Faithfulness Constraints in Vowel Systems

    By Viola Giulia Miglio

    Series: Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics

    Miglio argues that to assess the relative markedness of a segment, frequency of occurrence in vowel inventories is insufficient when considered on its own. In its analysis of the Great Vowel Shift, this book elaborates a more useful model of a unitary change even in a surface-oriented theory such...

    Published April 29th 2012 by Routledge

  4. The Syntax-Information Structure Interface

    Evidence from Spanish and English

    By Eugenia Casielles-Suárez

    Series: Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics

    Published April 9th 2012 by Routledge

  5. The Ups and Downs of Child Language

    Experimental Studies on Children's Knowledge of Entailment Relationships and Polarity Phenomena

    By Andrea Gualmini

    Series: Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics

    Published September 11th 2011 by Routledge

  6. The Semantics of the Future

    By Bridget Copley

    Series: Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics

    This book builds a semantics for several kinds of future-referring expressions, including will sentences, be going to sentences, and futurates. While there exists previous work on future-referring expressions, this is the first treatment of such a variety of expressions in a formal semantic...

    Published August 14th 2011 by Routledge

  7. Reassessing the Role of the Syllable in Italian Phonology

    An Experimental Study of Consonant Cluster Syllabification, Definite Article Allomorphy, and Segment Duration

    By Kristie McCrary Kambourakis

    Series: Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics

    Published December 5th 2006 by Routledge

  8. The Syntax of Negation and the Licensing of Negative Polarity Items in Hindi

    By Rajesh Kumar

    Series: Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics

    Syntactic analysis of the licensing of negative polarity items....

    Published February 2nd 2006 by Routledge

Forthcoming Books

  1. Existential Faithfullness: A Study of Reduplicative TETU, Feature Movement and Dissimulation
    By Caro StruijkeEdited by Laurence Horn
    To Be Published September 26th 2013
  2. Lenition and Contrast: The Functional Consequences of Certain Phonetically Conditioned Sound Changes
    By Naomi Gurevich
    To Be Published September 26th 2013
  3. True to Form: Rising and Falling Declaratives as Questions in English
    By Christine Gunlogson
    To Be Published September 26th 2013
  4. The Typology of Parts of Speech Systems: The Markedness of Adjectives
    By David Beck
    To Be Published September 26th 2013
  5. Phonological Augmentation in Prominent Positions
    By Jennifer L. Smith
    To Be Published September 26th 2013
  6. The Phonetics and Phonology of Gutturals: A Case Study from Ju|'hoansi
    By Amanda Miller-Ockhuizen
    To Be Published September 26th 2013
  7. Manifestations of Genericity
    By Yael Greenberg
    To Be Published September 26th 2013
  8. Causes and Consequences of Word Structure
    By Jennifer Hay
    To Be Published September 26th 2013
  9. Vietnamese Tone: A New Analysis
    By Andrea Hoa PhamEdited by Laurence Horn
    To Be Published September 26th 2013
  10. The Syntax of Possession in Japanese
    By Takae Tsujioka
    To Be Published September 29th 2013

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