Contemporary Linguistic Parameters
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Contemporary Linguistic Parameters

  1. 384 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Contemporary Linguistic Parameters

About this book

Parameters have lain at the core of linguistic research in the generative tradition for decades. The theoretical questions they have raised are deep and broad: this reference text investigates how contemporary linguistics has best tried to answer them. This book looks at how parameters might be properly defined and what their locus might be: lexical information, functional heads, the computational system, the phonological branch of the grammar. What kind of data forms trigger acquisition of a parameter? Are parameters necessary or can we study languages without making reference to them? The questions looked at are not just theoretical: how can a theory of parameters be used to help understand second language acquisition, and what contributions can it make to the study of language typology? This is the right time to gather all this information, dispersed in many different kinds of publications by single authors and groups, into one comprehensive volume.

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Yes, you can access Contemporary Linguistic Parameters by Antonio Fabregas, Jaume Mateu, Michael Putnam in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Langues et linguistique & Grammaire et ponctuation. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. FC
  2. Half title
  3. Also available from Bloomsbury
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. Abbreviations
  8. Part I. Prolegomena
  9. 1 “Parameters” in linguistic theory: What, where, and how Antonio Fábregas, Jaume Mateu, and Michael T. Putnam
  10. Part II. Main morphosyntactic parameters
  11. 2 Morphological parameters Antonio FĂĄbregas
  12. 3 Case. Ergative languages Michelle Sheehan
  13. 4 Head directionality Hubert Haider
  14. 5 Parameters and argument structure I: Motion predicates and resultatives VĂ­ctor Acedo-MatellĂĄn and Jaume Mateu
  15. 6 Parameters and argument structure II: Causatives and applicatives MarĂ­a Cristina Cuervo
  16. 7 The functional structure of the clause: Main issues Martina Wiltschko
  17. 8 Extended projections of V: Inner Aspect Jonathan E. MacDonald
  18. 9 Null subject Roberta D’Alessandro
  19. 10 Head movement in the clausal domain Ángel J. Gallego and Juan Uriagereka
  20. 11 Wh-movement Željko Bošković
  21. 12 Topic and focus Jordi Fortuny
  22. 13 The functional structure of N Asya Pereltsvaig
  23. Part III. Parameters beyond morphosyntax
  24. 14 Parameters in phonological analysis: Stress Marc van Oostendorp
  25. 15 Parameters in language acquisition and language contact Nina Hyams, Victoria Mateu, Robyn Ortfitelli, Michael Putnam, Jason Rothman, and Liliana SĂĄnchez
  26. References
  27. Index