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Autosegmental Representation in a Declarative Constraint-Based Framework

Autosegmental Representation in a Declarative Constraint-Based Framework

1st Edition

By James M. Scobbie
August 03, 2016

First Published in 1998. Since the original appearance of this thesis there have been enormous changes in phonology. The phrase 'constraint-based phonology' has almost universal coverage now, it would seem. This study is not solely about constraint-based phonology, as the title of the book ...

A Minimalist Approach to Intrasentential Code Switching

A Minimalist Approach to Intrasentential Code Switching

1st Edition

By Jeff MacSwan
July 29, 2016

First Published in 1999. Code switching is widely used in bilingual communities worldwide, and has been found in government documents, literature, religious works, and song. Pursuing this aim here, chapter 1 addresses the relevance of the study of code switching for education and schooling, ...

Grammatical Case Assignment in Finnish

Grammatical Case Assignment in Finnish

1st Edition

By Diane C. Nelson
July 27, 2016

First Published in 1998. This book is a revision of the author’s 1995 University of Edinburgh dissertation entitled X° Categories and Grammatical Case Assignment in Finnish . This work provides a structural account for patterns of grammatical case in Finnish within the Principles and Parameters ...

Positional Faithfulness An Optimality Theoretic Treatment of Phonological Asymmetries

Positional Faithfulness: An Optimality Theoretic Treatment of Phonological Asymmetries

1st Edition

By Jill N. Beckman
July 27, 2016

First published in 1999. This study developed from a dissertation in 1993, when the author undertook what she thought would be a simple Optimality Theory analysis of Shona vowel harmony. Having initially treated Shona height harmony as a case of featural alignment, akin to Kirchner's 1993 analysis ...

The Fine Structure of Polarity Sensitivity

The Fine Structure of Polarity Sensitivity

1st Edition

By Lucia M. Tovena
July 22, 2016

First Published in 1998. Part of the Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics series, this study investigates the phenomenon of polarity sensitivity. It proposes a new perspective which focuses on the behaviour and properties of sensitive items and the phrases they form. It originated in the ...

Input-based Phonological Acquisition

Input-based Phonological Acquisition

1st Edition

By Tania Zamuner
July 21, 2016

This book provides an analysis of two theories of language acquisition: the theory that acquisition is primarily mediated by innate properties of language provided by universal grammar, and the opposing theory that language is acquired based on the patterns in the ambient language. A problem not ...

Nasalization, Neutral Segments and Opacity Effects

Nasalization, Neutral Segments and Opacity Effects

1st Edition

By Rachel Walker
July 21, 2016

This book explores cross linguistic variation in nasalization....

Turn-taking in English and Japanese Projectability in Grammar, Intonation and Semantics

Turn-taking in English and Japanese: Projectability in Grammar, Intonation and Semantics

1st Edition

By Hiroko Furo
July 21, 2016

This book examines turn-taking in English and Japanese conversations and political news interviews to investigate the relationship between language and interaction....

Noun Phrase Licensing

Noun Phrase Licensing

1st Edition

By Jeffrey T. Runner
July 20, 2016

This book examines the syntax of direct object noun phrases in English within the Principles and Parameters, specifically Chomsky's Minimalist Program, approach to generative grammar. The main focus is on the phrase structural positions of object noun phrases at the various levels of representation...

Parallelism and Prosody in the Processing of Ellipsis Sentences

Parallelism and Prosody in the Processing of Ellipsis Sentences

1st Edition

Edited By Laurence Horn, Katy Carlson
July 18, 2016

First Published in 2002. This volume is part of the 'Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics' series. This book investigates the processing of ellipsis sentences, focusing on the following questions: (i) are ellipsis sentences processed using special routines employed only for ellipsis or are they...

Origins of Predicates Evidence from Plains Cree

Origins of Predicates: Evidence from Plains Cree

1st Edition

By Tomio Hirose
July 15, 2016

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 are syntactic constructs composed of morphemes as syntactic objects that are subject to structurally defined constraints, ...

The Morphosyntax of the Algonquian Conjunct Verb A Minimalist Approach

The Morphosyntax of the Algonquian Conjunct Verb: A Minimalist Approach

1st Edition

By Julie Brittain
July 15, 2016

The book investigates the synatctic distribution of the Algonquian Conjuct verb from the theoretical perspective of the Minimalist Program....

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