Identity relations in grammar / edited by Kuniya Nasukawa, Henk van Riemsdijk.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nasukawa, Kuniya, 1967- editor.

Riemsdijk, Henk C. van, editor.

Series:

Studies in generative grammar ; 119.

Studies in generative grammar, 0167-4331 ; 119

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Grammatical categories.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Identity (Philosophical concept).

Generative grammar.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (381 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boston ; Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Few concepts are as ubiquitous in the physical world of humans as that of identity. Laws of nature crucially involve relations of identity and non-identity, the act of identifying is central to most cognitive processes, and the structure of human language is determined in many different ways by considerations of identity and its opposite. The purpose of this book is to bring together research from a broad scale of domains of grammar that have a bearing on the role that identity plays in the structure of grammatical representations and principles. Beyond a great many analytical puzzles, the creation and avoidance of identity in grammar raise a lot of fundamental and hard questions. These include: Why is identity sometimes tolerated or even necessary, while in other contexts it must be avoided? What are the properties of complex elements that contribute to configurations of identity (XX)? What structural notions of closeness or distance determine whether an offending XX-relation exists or, inversely, whether two more or less distant elements satisfy some requirement of identity? Is it possible to generalize over the specific principles that govern (non-)identity in the various components of grammar, or are such comparisons merely metaphorical? Indeed, can we define the notion of identity in a formal way that will allow us to decide which of the manifold phenomena that we can think of are genuine instances of some identity (avoidance) effect? If identity avoidance is a manifestation in grammar of some much more encompassing principle, some law of nature, then how is it possible that what does and what does not count as identical in the grammars of different languages seems to be subject to considerable variation?

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Contributors

Introduction / Nasukawa, Kuniya / Riemsdijk, Henk van

Part I Phonology

Contrastiveness: The basis of identity avoidance / Nasukawa, Kuniya / Backley, Phillip

Rhyme as phonological multidominance / Oostendorp, Marc van

Babbling, intrinsic input and the statistics of identical transvocalic consonants in English monosyllables: Echoes of the Big Bang? / Bye, Patrik

Identity avoidance in the onset / Takahashi, Toyomi

Part II Morpho-Syntax

Unifying minimality and the OCP: Local anti-identity as economy / Manzini, M. Rita

Semantic versus syntactic agreement in anaphora: The role of identity avoidance / Ackema, Peter

Part III Syntax

Exploring the limitations of identity effects in syntax / Alexiadou, Artemis

Constraining Doubling / Hiraiwa, Ken

Recoverability of deletion / Johnson, Kyle

On the loss of identity and emergence of order: Symmetry breaking in linguistic theory / Liao, Wei-wen Roger

Part IV General

Linguistic and non-linguistic identity effects: Same or different? / Yip, Moira

On the biological origins of linguistic identity / Samuels, Bridget

Language index

Subject index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781614518112

1614518114

9781614518983

161451898X

OCLC:

893484664