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Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2023 21:34:19
From: Sebastian Nordhoff [Sebastian.Nordhoff at langsci-press.org]
Subject: Headedness and/or grammatical anarchy?: Freywald, Simon, Müller (eds.)

 


Title: Headedness and/or grammatical anarchy? 
Series Title: Empirically Oriented Theoretical Morphology and Syntax  

Publication Year: 2022 
Publisher: Language Science Press
	   http://langsci-press.org
	

Book URL: https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/336 


Editor: Ulrike Freywald
Editor: Horst J. Simon
Editor: Stefan Müller

Electronic: ISBN:  9783961103928 Pages: 386 Price: Europe EURO 0 Comment: Open Access


Abstract:

In most grammatical models, hierarchical structuring and dependencies are
considered as central features of grammatical structures, an idea which is
usually captured by the notion of “head” or “headedness”. While in most
models, this notion is more or less taken for granted, there is still much
disagreement as to the precise properties of grammatical heads and the
theoretical implications that arise of these properties. Moreover, there are
quite a few linguistic structures that pose considerable challenges to the
notion of “headedness”.
Linking to the seminal discussions led in Zwicky (1985) and Corbett, Fraser, &
Mc-Glashan (1993), this volume intends to look more closely upon phenomena
that are considered problematic for an analysis in terms of grammatical heads.
The aim of this book is to approach the concept of “headedness” from its
margins. Thus, central questions of the volume relate to the nature of heads
and the distinction between headed and non-headed structures, to the process
of gaining and losing head status, and to the thought-provoking question as to
whether grammar theory could do without heads at all.

The contributions in this volume provide new empirical findings bearing on
phenomena that challenge the conception of grammatical heads and/or discuss
the notion of head/headedness and its consequences for grammatical theory in a
more abstract way. The collected papers view the topic from diverse
theoretical perspectives (among others HPSG, Generative Syntax, Optimality
Theory) and different empirical angles, covering typological and
corpus-linguistic accounts, with a focus on data from German.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Morphology
                     Syntax


Written In: English  (eng)

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http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=166393




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