21.3247, Books: Syntax: Kibort, Corbett

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Title: Features 
Subtitle: Perspectives on a Key Notion in Linguistics 
Publication Year: 2010 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
	   http://www.oup.com/us
	

Book URL: http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199577743.do 


Author: Anna Kibort
Author: Greville G. Corbett

Hardback: ISBN:  9780199577743 Pages: 352 Price: U.K. £ 65.00


Abstract:

This book presents a critical overview of current work on linguistic features 
and establishes new bases for their use in the study and understanding of 
language. 

Features are fundamental components of linguistic description: they include 
gender (feminine, masculine, neuter); number (singular, plural, dual); person 
(1st, 2nd, 3rd); tense (present, past, future); and case (nominative, 
accusative, genitive, ergative). Despite their ubiquity and centrality in 
linguistic description, much remains to be discovered about them: there is, 
for example, no readily available inventory showing which features are found 
in which of the world's languages; there is no consensus about how they 
operate across different components of language; and there is no certainty 
about how they interact. This book seeks at once to highlight and to tackle 
these problems. It brings together perspectives from phonology to formal 
syntax and semantics, expounding the use of linguistic features in typology, 
computer applications, and logic. Linguists representing different standpoints 
spell out clearly the assumptions they bring to different kinds of feature and 
describe how they use them. Their contrasting contributions highlight the 
areas of difference and the common ground between their perspectives. 

The book brings together original work by leading international scholars. It will 
appeal to linguists of all theoretical persuasions. 



Linguistic Field(s): Syntax

Subject Language(s): English (eng)


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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