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Date:  Wed, 07 May 2003 16:30:05 +0000
From:  paul at benjamins.com
Subject:  Asymmetry in Grammar: Di Sciullo

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Date:  Wed, 07 May 2003 16:30:05 +0000
From:  paul at benjamins.com
Subject:  Asymmetry in Grammar: Di Sciullo

Title: Asymmetry in Grammar
Subtitle: Volume 2: Morphology, phonology, acquisition
Series Title: Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 58

Publication Year: 2003
Publisher: John Benjamins
           http://www.benjamins.com/, http://www.benjamins.nl		

Book URL: http://www.benjamins.nl/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=LA_58

Editor: Anna Maria  Di Sciullo, University of Quebec at Montreal

Hardback: ISBN: 9027227799, Pages: vi, 309 pp., Price: EUR 99.00
Hardback: ISBN: 1588113078, Pages: vi, 309 pp., Price: USD 99.00

Abstract:

Asymmetry in Grammar: Morphology, Phonology and Acquisition presents
evidence that asymmetry, as a property of linguistic relations, is
salient in grammar. The papers in morphology bring further evidence
for the centrality of asymmetry in word-structure. It is shown that
asymmetry is part of the internal structure of functional constructs
such as determiners and complementizers, as it is the case for lexical
constructs. Further evidence is presented for the asymmetry of
prefixes in verb structure. A typology of formal objects based on the
distinction between maximal and minimal categories is formulated. It
is proposed that Formal Complexity drives the change from synthetic to
analytic expressions. The papers in phonology point to the fact that
asymmetry is part of that linguistic dimension in terms of processes
that eliminates symmetric relations, in terms of head-dependency
relations, in terms of relative scope of the distinctive features in
any inventory, in terms of universal principles in combination with
certain language specific choices. Moreover, the papers on acquisition
bring to fore experimental data that point to the same direction. The
asymmetry of grammatical relations provides the form of the initial
state of language that enables the child to cope with the poverty of
the stimulus.

The collection includes papers in morphology by Anna Maria Di Sciullo,
Angela Ralli, Réjean Canac-Marquis, Abdelkader Fassi Fehri, papers in
phonology by Eric Raimy, Harry van der Hulst and Nancy Ritter, Glyne
Piggott, Charles Reiss, Elan Dresher, and papers in acquisition from
Maria Louisa Rivero and Magdalena Goledzinowska, and David Lebeaux.

Table of contents

Asymmetry in grammar: Morphology, phonology, acquisition
     Anna Maria Di Sciullo  1-8
Morphological relations in asymmetry theory
     Anna Maria Di Sciullo  9-36
Prefixation vs. compounding
     Angela Ralli  37-63
Asymmetry, syntactic objects and the Mirror Geralization
     Réjean Canac-Marquis  65-94
Synthetic/analytic asymmetries in voice and temporal patterns
     Abdelkader Fassi Fehri  95-128
Asymmetry and linearization in phonology
     Eric Raimy  129-146
Levels, constraints and heads
     Harry van der Hulst and Nancy A. Ritter  147-188
Obstruent neutrality in nasal harmony
     G.L. Piggott  189-214
Towards a theory of fundamental phonological relations
     Charles Reiss  215-238
Contrast and asymmetries in inventories
     B. Elan Dresher  239-257
The Acquisition of constructions with reflexive clitics in Polish
     María Luisa Rivero and Magdalena Goledzinowska  259-283
A subgrammar approach to language acquisition
     David Lebeaux  285-300
Index  301-306

Lingfield(s):   Generative Linguistics (Syntax)
		Language Acquisition
		Morphology
		Phonology
		Syntax

Subject Language(s):  Polish (Language Code: PQL)

Written In:  English (Language Code: ENG)

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