num_pages: 300
description: Linguistic mismatch phenomena involve semiotic functions that attach to forms in defiance of grammatical design features. Noun phrases, when used as predicates, provide one how do predicate nominals correspond to our theories of what nouns mean? How do such phenomena challenge traditional conceptions of grammar? How do competing theories of the syntax-semantics interface stand up when confronted with mismatch phenomena? Mismatch addresses these questions through the efforts of some of the most original thinkers in syntactic and semantic theory, exploring a wide variety of mismatch phenomena in a broad sampling of languages.
language: English
title: Mismatch: Form-Function Incongruity and the Architecture of Grammar (Volume 163)
titlecomplete: Mismatch: Form-Function Incongruity and the Architecture of Grammar (Volume 163) (Lecture Notes)
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publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Inf