Morphology, phonology, acquisition / edited by Anna-Maria Di Sciullo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Di Sciullo, Anne-Marie, 1951-

Series:

Linguistik aktuell/Linguistics today, 0166-0829 ; v. 58

Asymmetry in grammar ; v.2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Asymmetry (Linguistics).

Physical Description:

vi, 306 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : John Benjamins, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Asymmetry in Grammar: Morphology, Phonology and Acquisition presents evidence that asymmetry, as a property of linguistic relations, is salient in grammar. The papers in morphology bring further evidence for the centrality of asymmetry in word-structure. It is shown that asymmetry is part of the internal structure of functional constructs such as determiners and complementizers, as it is the case for lexical constructs. Further evidence is presented for the asymmetry of prefixes in verb structure. A typology of formal objects based on the distinction between maximal and minimal categories is formulated. It is proposed that Formal Complexity drives the change from synthetic to analytic expressions. The papers in phonology point to the fact that asymmetry is part of that linguistic dimension in terms of processes that eliminates symmetric relations, in terms of head-dependency relations, in terms of relative scope of the distinctive features in any inventory, in terms of universal principles in combination with certain language specific choices. Moreover, the papers on acquisition bring to fore experimental data that point to the same direction. The asymmetry of grammatical relations provides the form of the initial state of language that enables the child to cope with the poverty of the stimulus. The collection includes papers in morphology by Anna Maria Di Sciullo, Angela Ralli, Réjean Canac-Marquis, Abdelkader Fassi Fehri, papers in phonology by Eric Raimy, Harry van der Hulst and Nancy Ritter, Glyne Piggott, Charles Reiss, Elan Dresher, and papers in acquisition from Maria Louisa Rivero and Magdalena Goledzinowska, and David Lebeaux.

Contents:

Asymmetry in Grammar

Editorial page

Title page

LCC page

Table of contents

Asymmetry in grammar: Morphology, phonology, acquisition

Morphological relations in asymmetry theory

Summary

Notes

References

Prefixation vs. compounding: The case of Greek preverbs

Asymmetry, syntactic objects and the Mirror Generalization

Conclusion

Synthetic/analytic asymmetries in voice and temporal patterns

Summary and conclusion

Asymmetry and linearization in phonology

Levels, constraints and heads

Conclusions

Obstruent neutrality in nasal harmony

Towards a theory of fundamental phonological relations

Contrast and asymmetries in inventories

Acknowledgements

The acquisition of constructions with reflexive clitics in Polish

A subgrammar approach to language acquisition

Appendix: Licensing relations

Index

The series LINGUISTIK AKTUELL/LINGUISTICS TODAY (LA).

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612161438

9781282161436

1282161431

9789027296795

9027296790

OCLC:

302346663