From sounds to structures : beyond the veil of Maya / edited by Roberto Petrosino, Pietro Cerrone, Harry van der Hulst.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Petrosino, Roberto, editor.

Hulst, Harry van der, editor.

Cerrone, Pietro, editor.

Series:

Studies in generative grammar ; Volume 135.

Studies in generative grammar (SGG) ; Volume 135

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Phonology, Comparative.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (548 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boston ; Berlin : De Gruyter, 2018.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The term 'Maya', in Indian traditions, refers to our sensory perception of the world and, as such, to a superficial reality (or 'un-reality') that we must look beyond to find the inner reality of things. Applied to the study of language, we perceive sounds, a superficial reality, and then we seek structures, the underlying reality in what we call phonology, morphology, and syntax. This volume starts with an introduction by the editors, which shows how the various papers contained in the volume reflect the spectrum of research interests of Andrea Calabrese, as well as his influence on the work of colleagues and his students. Contributors, united in their search for the abstract structures that underlie the appearances of languages include linguists such as Adriana Belletti, Paola Benincà, Jonathan Bobaljik, Gugliemo Cinque, David Embick, Mirko Grimaldi, Harry van der Hulst, Michael Kenstowicz, Maria Rita Manzini, Andrew Nevins, Elizabeth Pyatt, Luigi Rizzi, Leonardo Savoia, Laura Vanelli, Bert Vaux, Susi Wurmbrand, as well as a few junior researchers including Mariachiara Berizzi, Giuliano Bocci, Stefano Canalis, Silvio Cruschina, Irina Monich, Beata Moskal, Diego Pescarini, Joseph Perry, Roberto Petrosino, and Kobey Schwayder.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface / Petrosino, Roberto / Cerrone, Pietro C. / van der Hulst, Harry

Contents

Part I: Issues in Phonology

The status of Italian glides in the syllable / Canalis, Stefano

The phonology and phonetics of laryngeal stop contrasts in Assamese / Dutta, Hemanga / Kenstowicz, Michael

The phonetics-phonology relationship in the neurobiology of language / Grimaldi, Mirko

Metaphony with unary elements / van der Hulst, Harry

Many sons of Aodh: Tracing multiple outcomes of the Scottish and Irish clan name MacAoidh/Ó hAodha / Pyatt, Elizabeth J.

Part II: Issues in Morpho-Phonology

Disharmony and decay: Itelmen vowel harmony in the 20th century / Bobaljik, Jonathan David

Deriving morphophonological (mis)applications / Embick, David / Shwayder, Kobey

Distribution of falling tones in Mabaan / Monich, Irina

Vedic Sanskrit accentuation and readjustment rules / Perry, J. Joseph / Vaux, Bert

Allomorphy of Italian determiners at the morphology-phonology interface / Petrosino, Roberto

Part III: Issues in the Morpho-Syntax

Diachronic and synchronic aspects in the expression of temporal distance in the past: A process of grammaticalization in Italian compared with other Romance languages and English / Benincà, Paola / Berizzi, Mariachiara / Vanelli, Laura

N inflections and their interpretation: Neuter -o and plural -a in Italian varieties / Manzini, M. Rita / Savoia, Leonardo M.

Copying and resolution in South Slavic and South Bantu Conjunct Agreement / Nevins, Andrew

Subject and impersonal clitics in northern Italian dialects / Pescarini, Diego

Markedness as a condition on feature sharing / Wurmbrand, Susi

Part IV: Issues in Syntax

On a-marking of object topics in the Italian left periphery / Belletti, Adriana

Postverbal subjects and nuclear pitch accent in Italian wh-questions / Bocci, Giuliano / Cruschina, Silvio

On the Merge position of additive and associative plurals / Cinque, Guglielmo

Subjects, topics and the interpretation of pro / Rizzi, Luigi

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781501506635

1501506633

9781501506734

1501506730

OCLC:

1050455905