A guide to morphosyntax-phonology interface theories: how extra-phonological information is treated in phonology since Trubetzkoy's Grenzsignale
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Main Author: Scheer, Tobias (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin De Gruyter Mouton ©2011
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 717-783) and indexes
pt. 1. Morpho-syntactic information in phonology : a survey since Trubetzkoy's Grenzsignale -- pt. 2. Lessons from interface theories
This book reviews the history of the interface between morpho-syntax and phonology roughly since World War II. Structuralist and generative interface thinking is presented chronologically, but also theory by theory from the point of view of a historically interested observer who however in the last third of the book distills lessons in order to assess present-day interface theories, and to establish a catalogue of properties that a correct interface theory should or must not have. The book also introduces modularity, the rationalist theory of the (human) cognitive system that underlies the generative approach to language, from a Cognitive Science perspective. Modularity is used as a referee for interface theories in the book. Finally, the book locates the interface debate in the landscape of current minimalist syntax and phase theory and fosters intermodular argumentation: how can we use properties of morpho-syntactic theory in order to argue for or against competing theories of phonology (and vice-versa)?
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (liii, 847 pages)
ISBN:1283165775
3110238624
3110238632
9781283165778
9783110238624
9783110238631

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