Language Universals and Variation
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Language Universals and Variation

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About this book

Issues addressed in this contributed volume include lexical semantics, morphosyntax, and phonology based on the broad theme of formal approaches to language universals and variation. Aspects of natural language variation are investigated from a formal theoretical perspective, including the Principles and Parameters/Minimalist Program, Lexical Functional Grammar and Optimality Theory. A wide range of languages and language families are considered, including Amharic, Arabic, Bantu, Berber, Chamorro, English, French, Japanese, Malyalam, Polish, Spanish, Tagalog, Turkish, and Warlpiri. This is an important addition to the growing body of literature on language universals and variation from formal theoretical perspectives. It will be a useful reference to linguistics specialists and other cognitive scientists. The topics covered are also diverse, ranging from pronominal clitic variation in dialects of Spanish to passives in Bantu and Polish and the typology of Wh-in-situ questions and vowel place constraints.

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Yes, you can access Language Universals and Variation by Mengistu Amberber, Peter Collins, Mengistu Amberber,Peter Collins in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Education & Education General. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Praeger
Year
2002
Print ISBN
9780275976828
eBook ISBN
9780313012488
Edition
1

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface
  3. 1 Quirky Alternations of Transitivity: The Case of Ingestive Predicates
  4. 2 Explaining Clitic Variation in Spanish
  5. 3 Slavic Passives, Bantu Passives, and Human Cognition
  6. 4 The Split VP Hypothesis: Evidence from Language Acquisition
  7. 5 Syntactic Constraints in a "Free Word Order" Language
  8. 6 On the Range and Variety of Cases Assigned by Adpositions
  9. 7 Optimality and Three Western Austronesian Case Systems
  10. 8 Affixes, Clitics, and Bantu Morphosyntax
  11. 9 Two Types of Wh-In-Situ
  12. 10 Vowel Place Contrasts
  13. Author Index
  14. Index of Languages and Language Families
  15. Subject Index
  16. About the Editors and Contributors