Interfaces in language / edited by John Partridge.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Partridge, John Geoffrey.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Linguistics--Congresses.

Linguistics.

Language and languages--Congresses.

Language and languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (364 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume resulted from the first Interfaces in Language conference held at the University of Kent as a result of the need perceived for the orthodox distinctions made between the various perceived divisions in language study, e.g. syntax vs. semantics vs. pragmatics vs. phonology vs. morphology, to be expanded into a wider concept of linguistic interfaces, for example language and music, language and politics, languages in mutual contact, languages in mutual conflict, language and literat...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PREFACE; LINEARITY AND THE SYNTAX-SEMANTICS INTERFACE; LEFT DISLOCATION AND THE THEME-TOPIC INTERFACE; DECLARATIVE ROOT CLAUSES WITH 'THAT'; CHICKENS AND EGGS; SEGMENTAL PROCESSES; FROM MUSICAL CADENCES TO LINGUISTIC PROSODY; LANGUEDOCIAN; THE FIVE LANGUAGES OF SWITZERLAND; PURISM IN LANGUAGE CONFLICT; GENOCIDE AND ETHNOCIDE; THE EFFECT OF MIGRATION ON LOCAL IDENTITY AND SOUND CHANGE; CROSS-DISCIPLINARY INSIGHTS ON REGIONAL DIALECT LEVELLING; 'NI PATOIS, NI FRANÇAIS RÉGIONAL'

USE AND MISUSE OF LINGUISTIC SIMILARITIES TO TEACH FRENCH IN MEDIEVAL TRIGLOSSIC ENGLISHMODELLING THE LINGUISTIC MIND; CONTRIBUTORS

Notes:

Interfaces 2 was held at the University of Kent in 2010.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-283-14137-X

1-4438-2433-X

9786613141378

OCLC:

830167935