Language description informed by theory
By: edited by Rob Pensalfini, The University of Queensland ; Myfany Turpin, The University of Queensland ; Diana Guillemin, Griffith University
Series: Studies in language companion series (SLCS) -- volume 147
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 391
ISBN-13: 9789027206145; 9789027270917
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Linguistics; Modality (Linguistics); Comparative and general Grammar; Syntax; Verb phrase
Description: This volume explores how linguistic theories inform the ways in which languages are described. Theories, as representations of linguistic categories, guide the field linguist to look for various phenomena without presupposing their necessary existence and provide the tools to account for various sets of data across different languages. A goal of linguistic description is to represent the full range of language structures for any given language. The chapters in this book cover various sub-disciplines of linguistics including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, language acquisition, and anthropological linguistics, drawing upon theoretical approaches such as prosodic Phonology, Enhancement theory, Distributed Morphology, Minimalist syntax, Lexical Functional Grammar, and Kinship theory. The languages described in this book include Australian languages (Pama-Nyungan and non-Pama-Nyungan), Romance languages as well as English. This volume will be of interest to researchers in both descriptive and theoretical linguistics.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Evaluating Warlpiri bilingual education / Samantha Disbray; title: Phonological aspects of Arandic baby talk / Myfany Turpin, Katherine Demuth and April Ngampart Campbell; title: Pre-stopping of nasals and laterals is only partly parallel / Erich Round; title: The grammatical status of Garrwa pronouns / Ilana Mushin; title: Verbs as spatial deixis markers in Jingulu / Rob Pensalfini; title: Inflectional classes in morphology: Description and reconstruction / Harold Koch; title: Marking definiteness or specificity, not necessarily both: Evidence of a principle of economy from Mauritian Creole / Diana Guillemin; title: Theory and experiment in parametric minimalism: The case of Romance negation / Giuseppe Longobardi; title: Serial verbs in Wambaya / Rachel Nordlinger; title: Nominals as adjuncts or arguments: Further evidence from language mixing / Felicity Meakins; title: The case of the invisible postman: The current status of the French future tense / Lynn Wales; title: Manner and result: A view from clean / Beth Levin and Malka Rappaport Hovav; title: Shifting relations: Structure and agency in the language of Bininj Gunwok kinship / Murray Garde.