Challenges to Linearization (Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG], 114) - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 1614513104 ISBN 13: 9781614513100

Verlag: De Gruyter Mouton, 2013

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The ten contributions in this volume focus on a range of linearization challenges, all of which aim to shed new light on the central, still largely mysterious question of how the abundant evidence that linguistic structures are hierarchically organised can plausibly be reconciled with the fact that actually realised linguistic strings are typically sequentially ordered. Some of the contributions present particularly challenging data, those on the mixed spoken and signed output of bimodal Italian children, Quechua nominal morphology, Kannada reduplication and Taqbaylit of Chemini “floating prepositions” all being cases in point. Others have a typological focus, highlighting and attempting to explain striking patterns like the Final-over-Final Constraint or considering the predictions of particular theoretical approacesh (the movement theory of Control, multidominance, Distributed Morphology) in relation to structures that we do and don’t expect to be “possible linguistic structures”. Broader architectural questions also receive attention from various perspectives.

This volume will be of interest to advanced students and researchers with interests in the externalisation of ling

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Theresa Biberauer, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England and Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa; Ian Roberts, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England.

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• Verlag: De Gruyter Mouton
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1614513104
• ISBN 13: 9781614513100
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 385
• Herausgeber: Biberauer Theresa, Roberts Ian
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