27.2771, Books: Contiguity Theory: Richards

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Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2016 13:38:33
From: Susan Mai [susanmai at mit.edu]
Subject: Contiguity Theory: Richards

Title: Contiguity Theory 
Series Title: Linguistic Inquiry Monographs  

Publication Year: 2016 
Publisher: MIT Press
	   http://mitpress.mit.edu/

Book URL: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/contiguity-theory 

Author: Norvin Richards

Paperback: ISBN:  9780262528825 Pages: 400 Price: U.S. $ 38.00

Abstract:

Languages differ in the types of overt movement they display. For example,
some languages (including English) require subjects to move to a preverbal
position, while others (including Italian) allow subjects to remain
postverbal. In its current form, Minimalism offers no real answer to the
question of why these different types of movements are distributed among
languages as they are. In Contiguity Theory, Norvin Richards argues that there
are universal conditions on morphology and phonology, particularly in how the
prosodic structures of language can be built, and that these universal
structures interact with language-specific properties of phonology and
morphology. He argues that the grammar begins the construction of phonological
structure earlier in the derivation than previously thought, and that the
distribution of overt movement operations is largely determined by the
grammar’s efforts to construct this structure. Rather than appealing to
diacritic features, the explanations will generally be rooted in observable
phenomena. 

Richards posits a different kind of relation between syntax and morphology
than is usually found in Minimalism. According to his Contiguity Theory, if we
know, for example, what inflectional morphology is attached to the verb in a
given language, and what the rules are for where stress is placed in the verb,
then we will know where the verb goes in the sentence. Ultimately, the goal is
to construct a theory in which a complete description of the phonology and
morphology of a given language is also a description of its syntax.

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories
                     Morphology
                     Syntax

Written In: English  (eng)

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