22.4104, Books: General Linguistics/Morphology/Syntax/Phonology: Anderson

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Date: 28-Sep-2011
From: Jeri Dash [jeri.dash at oup.com]
Subject: John M. Anderson: The Substance of Language: Anderson

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Title: John M. Anderson: The Substance of Language 
Subtitle: Three-volume pack 
Publication Year: 2011 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
	   http://www.oup.com/us

Book URL: http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199696024.do 

Author: John M. Anderson

Hardback: ISBN:  9780199608317 Pages: 448 Price: U.K. £ 85.00 Comment: Volume 1
Hardback: ISBN:  9780199608331 Pages: 432 Price: U.K. £ 85.00 Comment: Volume 3
Hardback: ISBN:  9780199608324 Pages: 352 Price: U.K. £ 75.00 Comment: Volume 2
Hardback: ISBN:  9780199696024 Pages: 1232 Price: U.K. £ 195.00 Comment: Three Volume Pack

Abstract:

The Substance of Language
Volume I: The Domain of Syntax
Volume  II: Morphology, Paradigms, and Periphrases
Volume III: Phonology-Syntax Analogies
John M. Anderson

The three volumes of The Substance of Language collectively overhaul 
linguistic theory from phonology to semantics and syntax to pragmatics and 
offer a full account of how the form/function relationship works in language. 
Each explores the consequences for the investigation of language of a 
conviction that all aspects of linguistic structure are grounded in the non-
linguistic mental faculties on which language imposes its own structure. The 
first and third look at how syntax and phonology are fed by a lexical 
component that includes morphology and which unites representations in the 
two planes. The second examines the way morphology is embedded in the 
lexicon as part of the expression of the lexicon-internal relationships of 
words. 

The Domain of Syntax explores the consequences for syntax of assuming 
that language is grounded in cognition and perception. It shows that syntax is 
characterized by a set of categories based on distinctions in what the 
categories are perceived to represent. The first part of the book traces the 
twentieth-century development of anti-notionalism, culminating in the 
assumption that syntax is autonomous. The author then looks at syntactic 
phenomena, many involving the fundamental notion of finiteness. He  
considers whether the appeal to grounding permits a lexicalist approach that 
would allow syntax to dispense not only with structural mutations such as 
category-change and 'empty categories' but with universal grammar itself.

Morphology , Paradigms, and Periphrases is concerned with the role of the 
lexicon, in particular its inflectional morphology, in mediating between the 
substantively different categories of syntax and phonology. In the first part of 
the book Professor Anderson looks at the central role of the paradigm in 
reconciling the demands of syntactic categorization with the available means 
of expression. He examines the expressive role of inflection, illustrating his
argument with Old English verb morphology. In the second part of the book 
the author pursues the notion of grammatical periphrasis. He starts out from 
its role as a solver of the problem of defective or incomplete paradigms and 
then compares it with other analytic expressions. He concludes with a 
discussion of why studies of grammatical periphrasis have focused on verbal 
constructions. He looks at the mechanism by which grammatical periphrases 
compensate for gaps in the finite verb paradigm and what this reveals about 
the substantive differences between verbs and nouns.

Phonology-Syntax Analogies looks at the substantive and structural 
analogies betwem phonology and syntax and the factors that cause such 
analogies to break down. It considers the degree to which analogies between 
syntax and phonology result from their both being representational 
subsystems within the overall system of language. At the same time it 
examines how far semantic and phonetic properties limit such analogies. The 
book presents a powerful argument against the notion of an ungrounded 
autonomous syntax, which it sustains and supports by detailed grammatical 
analyses and a powerfully coherent conceptual understanding of the nature of 
language.

The many detailed proposals of John Anderson's fine trilogy are derived from 
an over-arching conception of the nature of linguistic knowledge that is in turn 
based on the grounding of syntax in semantics and the grounding of 
phonology in phonetics, both convincingly subsumed under the notion of 
cognitive salience. The Substance of Language is a major contribution to 
linguistic theory and the history of linguistic thought. 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Morphology
                     Phonology
                     Pragmatics
                     Semantics
                     Syntax

Written In: English  (eng)

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