Language description informed by theory / edited by Rob Pensalfini, Myfany Turpin, Diana Guillemin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pensalfini, Rob.

Turpin, Myfany, 1972-

Guillemin, Diana.

Series:

Studies in language companion series ; 147.

Studies in Language Companion Series ; 147

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Linguistics.

Physical Description:

xii, 391 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, The Netherlands : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014.

Summary:

This volume explores how linguistic theories inform the ways in which languages are described. Theories, as representations of linguistic categories, guide the field linguist to look for various phenomena without presupposing their necessary existence and provide the tools to account for various sets of data across different languages. A goal of linguistic description is to represent the full range of language structures for any given language. The chapters in this book cover various sub-disciplines of linguistics including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, language acquisition, and anthropological linguistics, drawing upon theoretical approaches such as prosodic Phonology, Enhancement theory, Distributed Morphology, Minimalist syntax, Lexical Functional Grammar, and Kinship theory. The languages described in this book include Australian languages (Pama-Nyungan and non-Pama-Nyungan), Romance languages as well as English. This volume will be of interest to researchers in both descriptive and theoretical linguistics.

Contents:

1 Map of Australian languages refferred to in this book p. vii

2 List of contributors p. xi

3 Editors' introduction p. 1 / Rob Pensalfini; Diana Guillemin; Myfany Turpin

4 Bibliography of Mary Laughren p. 15 / Myfany Turpin; Diana Guillemin

5 Evaluating the Bilingual Education Program in Warlpiri schools p. 25 / Samantha Disbray

6 Part 1. Phonology

7 Phonological aspects of Arandic baby talk p. 49 / Myfany Turpin; Katherine Demuth; April Ngampart Campbell

8 Prestopping of nasals and laterals is only partly parallel p. 81 / Erich Round

9 Part 2. Morphology

10 Liminal pronoun systems p. 99 / Ilana Mushin

11 Verbs as spatial deixis markers in Jingulu p. 123 / Rob Pensalfini

12 The reconstruction of inflectional classes in morphology p. 153 / Harold Koch

13 Part 3. Syntax

14 Marking Definiteness or Specificity, not necessarily both p. 193 / Diana Guillemin

15 Theory and experiment in parametric minimalism p. 217 / Giuseppe Longobardi

16 Serial verbs in Wambaya p. 263 / Rachel Nordlinger

17 Nominals as adjuncts or arguments p. 283 / Felicity Meakins

18 Part 4. Semantics

19 The case of the invisible postman p. 319 / Lynn Wales

20 Manner and result p. 337 / Beth Levin; Malka Rappaport Hovav

21 Part 5. Anthropological Linguistics

22 Shifting relations p. 361 / Murray Garde

23 Language index p. 383

24 Subject index p. 385.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789027206145

9027206147

OCLC:

865468513