32.132, Books: Contrast and Representations in Syntax: Bjorkman, Hall (eds.)

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Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2021 15:03:24
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Subject: Contrast and Representations in Syntax: Bjorkman, Hall (eds.)

 


Title: Contrast and Representations in Syntax 
Series Title: Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Editor: Bronwyn M. Bjorkman
Editor: Daniel Currie Hall

Hardback: ISBN:  9780198817925 Pages: 336 Price: U.S. $ 100
Paperback: ISBN:  9780198817932 Pages: 336 Price: U.S. $ 40


Abstract:

This book explores how grammatical oppositions - for instance, the contrast
between present and past tense - are represented in the syntax of natural
languages. The nature of syntactic contrast is tied to a fundamental question
in generative syntactic theory: what is universal in syntax, and what is
variable? The chapters in this volume examine the dual role of features, which
both define a set of paradigmatic contrasts and act as the building blocks of
syntactic structures and the drivers of syntactic operations. In both of these
roles, features are increasingly considered the locus of parametric variation.
This identification of parameters with features has opened up new
possibilities for investigating connections between the morphological system
of a language and its syntax, and suggests a new role for featural contrast in
syntactic theory. The contributors to this volume address these two major
questions from a range of perspectives, drawing on data from a variety of
typologically diverse languages, including Blackfoot, Greek, Onondaga, and
Scottish Gaelic.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories
                     Morphology
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): Gaelic, Scottish (gla)
                     Greek, Modern (ell)
                     Onondaga (ono)
                     Siksika (bla)


Written In: English  (eng)

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