26.909, Books: Language Use and Linguistic Structure: Emonds, Janebova (eds.)

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Subject: 26.909, Books: Language Use and Linguistic Structure: Emonds, Janebova (eds.)

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Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 12:49:09
From: Marketa Janebova [marketa.janebova at upol.cz]
Subject: Language Use and Linguistic Structure: Emonds, Janebova (eds.)

Title: Language Use and Linguistic Structure 
Subtitle: Proceedings of the Olomouc Linguistics Colloquium 2013 
Series Title: Olomouc Modern Language Series  

Publication Year: 2014 
Publisher: Department of English and American Studies, Palacky University, Olomouc
	   http://www.anglistika.upol.cz/veda_a_vyzkum/publikace.html

Book URL: http://olinco.upol.cz/assets/olinco-2013-proceedings.pdf 

Editor: Joseph Emonds
Editor: Marketa Janebova

Electronic: ISBN:  9788024440590 Pages:  Price: ----  0.00 Comment: Open Access
Paperback: ISBN:  9788024440606 Pages: 325 Price: ----   Comment: Available upon enquiry

Abstract:

The articles in this volume are based on papers and posters presented at the Olomouc Linguistics Colloquium (OLINCO) at Palacký University in the Czech Republic in June 2013. This conference welcomed papers that combined analyses of language structure with generalizations about language use.

The first of the two sections on grammatical structure – entitled “Grammar of the Left Periphery and Scope Relations” – manifests the strong interest of the conference participants in the properties (such as scope or intervention effects) of overt or covert categories at the left periphery of clauses: topicalized and WH constituents and sentence-initial adverbials. Main clause or “root” phenomena are a central concern in these essays. Current research has been subjecting such structures to intense scrutiny, so we hope that the various hypotheses defended here, some of them rather daring, will capture the interest of a wide range of syntactic researchers.

Similar observations apply to the papers in the second, syntactic, section, entitled “Structural Meanings of Verbs and Their Complements,” where the focus is on the semantics (possibly null) of verbs and their grammatical modifiers. Two authors address issues such as the presence or absence of reflexive markers and the choice of grammatical prefixes of verbs, and two authors focus on the syntax and semantics of the most highly grammaticalized verbs. All the papers deal with questions that are at the center of issues of how verbs behave at what is widely referred to as the syntax/semantics interface.

The volume’s third section, “Implicatures, Connotation, and Discourse,” contains papers dealing with the pragmatics of language use. Several deal with the social connotations of vocabulary choice or syntactic expression. Three of the papers apply experimental methods in testing pragmatic hypotheses. The issues addressed in these papers concern the generation of implicatures, and the papers demonstrate that an experimental approach provides relevant statistical evidence that supports one alternative theory against another.

A fourth group of papers that emerged from the OLINCO Workshop is papers on phonetics and phonology. Two involve rather centrally aspects of Czech or Slovak phonetics. One article examines Slovak syllabic liquids from the viewpoint of articulatory phonology; the other is an exploratory study of pre-vocalic glottalization in Bohemian and Moravian Czech. The focus of the remaining two papers is on cross-linguistic influences: the phonology of Czech loanwords from English and the production of vowels by Czech-Spanish bilinguals.

The authors include (in alphabetical order): Manuela Ambar, Boban Arsenijević, J.-Marc Authier, Anna Babarczy, Ivona Barešová, Štefan Beňuš, Jakub Bortlík, Victoria Camacho-Taboada, Štěpánka Čechová, Tomáš Duběda, István Fekete, Mátyás Gerőcs, Liliane Haegeman, Martin Havlík, Lucie Jílková, Ángel L. Jiménez-Fernández, Marie Krappmann, Jan Křivan, Dagmar Machová, Mirjana Mirić, Mark Newson, Janet Randall, Emilio Servidio, Balázs Surányi, Magdalena Szczyrbak, Krisztina Szécsényi, Veronika Štěpánová, Alina–Mihaela Tigău, Inna Tolskaya, Kateřina Veselovská, Roland Wagner, and Halina Zawiszová. 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Pragmatics
                     Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): Czech (ces)
                     English (eng)
                     French (fra)
                     Hungarian (hun)
                     Italian (ita)
                     Japanese (jpn)
                     Portuguese (por)
                     Romanian (ron)
                     Russian (rus)
                     Serbian (srp)
                     Slovak (slk)
                     Spanish (spa)

Written In: English  (eng)

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