Representing structure in phonology and syntax /

Formal grammars by definition need two parts: a theory of computation (or derivation), and a theory of representation. While recent attention in mainstream syntactic and phonological theory has been devoted to the former, the papers in this volume aim to show that the importance of representational...

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Corporate Authors: De Gruyter.
Group Author: Oostendorp, Marc van; Riemsdijk, Henk van
Published: De Gruyter,
Publisher Address: Berlin/Boston :
Publication Dates: [2015]
©2015
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: Studies in generative grammar [sgg]; 124
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Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781501502224
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Summary: Formal grammars by definition need two parts: a theory of computation (or derivation), and a theory of representation. While recent attention in mainstream syntactic and phonological theory has been devoted to the former, the papers in this volume aim to show that the importance of representational details is not diminished by the insights of such theories.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource(v, 340 pages) : illustrations.
Also available in print edition.
ISBN: 9781501502224
Index Number: P217
CLC: H04
Contents: Frontmatter --
Contents --
Introduction /
Doubly-Filled Comp, wh head-movement, and derivational economy /
Interjections as structured root expressions /
The internal structure of wh-elements and the diversity of wh-movement /
Relative clauses: Parallelism and partial reconstruction /
On the nature of word order regularities /
On the substantive primitives of morphosyntax and their parametrization: Northern Italian subject clitics /
Language acquisition and the neuroscience of development /
Recursion in the lexical structure of morphemes /
Final devoicing in French /
Binding in phonology /
The cross-linguistic homes of Mood and Tense /
Multidomination and the coherence of anaphors /
Language index --
Subject index.