Impossible persons /:
A groundbreaking, comprehensive formal theory of grammatical person that recasts its empirical foundations and re-envisions its theoretical core.
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| Zusammenfassung: | A groundbreaking, comprehensive formal theory of grammatical person that recasts its empirical foundations and re-envisions its theoretical core. "Impossible persons, Daniel Harbour's comprehensive and groundbreaking formal theory of grammatical person, upends understanding of a universal and ubiquitous grammatical category. Breaking with much past work, Harbour establishes three core theses, one empirical, one theoretical, and one metatheoretical. Together, these redefine the data subsumed under the rubric of "person," simplify the feature inventory that a theory of person must posit, and restructure the metatheory in which feature theory as a whole resides. At its heart, Impossible Persons poses a simple question of the possible versus the actual: in how many ways could languages configure their person systems, in how many do they configure them, and what explains the size and shape of the shortfall? Harbour's empirical thesis--that the primary object of study for persons are partitions, not syncretisms--transforms a sea of data into a categorical problem of the attested and the absent. Positing, innovatively, that features denote actions, not predicates, he shows that two features alone generate all and only the attested systems. This apparently poor inventory yields rich explanatory dividends, covering the morphological composition of person, its interaction with number, its connection to space, and properties of its semantics and linearization. Moreover, the core properties of this approach are shared with Harbour's earlier work on number features. Jointly, these results establish an important metatheoretical corollary concerning the balance between richness of feature semantics and restrictiveness of feature inventories. This corollary holds deep implications for how linguists should approach feature theory in future"--Publisher's website |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (xviii, 312 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780262336048 0262336049 0262336057 9780262336055 |
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| spelling | Harbour, Daniel, author. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr2001034034 Impossible persons / Daniel Harbour. Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press, [2016] ©2016 1 online resource (xviii, 312 pages) : illustrations text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Linguistic inquiry monographs Includes bibliographical references and index. Series Foreword; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations and Notation; 1 In a Nutshell; 1.1 Three Theses; 1.2 Methods; 2 The Path to Partition; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 A Problematic Problem; 2.3 A Problem with Promise; 2.4 Alternatives; 2.5 Conclusion; 3 The Partition Problem; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 The Full Problem; 3.3 Empirical Domain; 3.4 Partitions Illustrated; 3.5 Conclusion; 4 The Partition Problem Solved; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Elements of the Solution; 4.3 Solution of the Partition Problem; 4.4 o; 4.5 The Partition Element Problem; 4.6 Conclusion; 5 Morphological Composition. 5.1 Introduction5.2 Clusivity; 5.3 Second and General First Person; 5.4 Limits and Constraints; 5.5 Conclusion; 6 Number and the Functional Sequence; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Lattice Diagrams; 6.3 Partitions with Number; 6.4 Two Semantic Asides; 6.5 Interfaces; 6.6 Conclusion; 7 Spaces, Objects, Paths; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Empirical Case; 7.3 Theoretical Underpinnings; 7.4 Conclusion; 8 Oldfangled and; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 Interlinguistic Adequacy; 8.3 Intralinguistic Adequacy; 8.4 The Challenge of Mixed Partitions; 8.5 Conclusion; 9 The Form of the Phi Kernel; 9.1 Introduction; 9.2 Operations. 9.3 Order9.4 Combinatorics; 9.5 Valence; 9.6 Cognition and Evolution; 9.7 Conclusion; 10 Conclusion; A Empirical Appendices; A.1 Preponderant Syncretism in Georgian; A.2 Nonstandard Tripartitions?; B Formal Appendices; B.1 Zero Bottoming; B.2 -Internal Composition; B.3 Larger Ontologies; B.4 Privative Features; B.5 Number: Formal Details; Notes; References; Index. A groundbreaking, comprehensive formal theory of grammatical person that recasts its empirical foundations and re-envisions its theoretical core. "Impossible persons, Daniel Harbour's comprehensive and groundbreaking formal theory of grammatical person, upends understanding of a universal and ubiquitous grammatical category. Breaking with much past work, Harbour establishes three core theses, one empirical, one theoretical, and one metatheoretical. Together, these redefine the data subsumed under the rubric of "person," simplify the feature inventory that a theory of person must posit, and restructure the metatheory in which feature theory as a whole resides. At its heart, Impossible Persons poses a simple question of the possible versus the actual: in how many ways could languages configure their person systems, in how many do they configure them, and what explains the size and shape of the shortfall? Harbour's empirical thesis--that the primary object of study for persons are partitions, not syncretisms--transforms a sea of data into a categorical problem of the attested and the absent. Positing, innovatively, that features denote actions, not predicates, he shows that two features alone generate all and only the attested systems. This apparently poor inventory yields rich explanatory dividends, covering the morphological composition of person, its interaction with number, its connection to space, and properties of its semantics and linearization. Moreover, the core properties of this approach are shared with Harbour's earlier work on number features. Jointly, these results establish an important metatheoretical corollary concerning the balance between richness of feature semantics and restrictiveness of feature inventories. This corollary holds deep implications for how linguists should approach feature theory in future"--Publisher's website Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 8 2016). Grammar, Comparative and general Person. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056315 Grammar, Comparative and general Number. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056311 Grammar, Comparative and general Pronoun. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056322 Grammar, Comparative and general Morphosyntax. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001843 Semantics. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85119870 Universal grammar. Personne (Linguistique) Nombre (Linguistique) Pronom. Morphosyntaxe. Sémantique. semantics. aat LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES Grammar & Punctuation. bisacsh LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES Linguistics Syntax. bisacsh Grammar, Comparative and general Morphosyntax fast Grammar, Comparative and general Number fast Grammar, Comparative and general Person fast Grammar, Comparative and general Pronoun fast Semantics fast LINGUISTICS & LANGUAGE/General Electronic book. has work: Impossible persons (Text) https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCGTmF9jDpmwQvgfHykW6jC https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/ontology/hasWork Print version: Harbour, Daniel. Impossible persons. Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press, [2016] 9780262034739 (DLC) 2016007201 (OCoLC)946160389 Linguistic inquiry monographs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n42015434 |
| spellingShingle | Harbour, Daniel Impossible persons / Linguistic inquiry monographs. Series Foreword; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations and Notation; 1 In a Nutshell; 1.1 Three Theses; 1.2 Methods; 2 The Path to Partition; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 A Problematic Problem; 2.3 A Problem with Promise; 2.4 Alternatives; 2.5 Conclusion; 3 The Partition Problem; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 The Full Problem; 3.3 Empirical Domain; 3.4 Partitions Illustrated; 3.5 Conclusion; 4 The Partition Problem Solved; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Elements of the Solution; 4.3 Solution of the Partition Problem; 4.4 o; 4.5 The Partition Element Problem; 4.6 Conclusion; 5 Morphological Composition. 5.1 Introduction5.2 Clusivity; 5.3 Second and General First Person; 5.4 Limits and Constraints; 5.5 Conclusion; 6 Number and the Functional Sequence; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Lattice Diagrams; 6.3 Partitions with Number; 6.4 Two Semantic Asides; 6.5 Interfaces; 6.6 Conclusion; 7 Spaces, Objects, Paths; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Empirical Case; 7.3 Theoretical Underpinnings; 7.4 Conclusion; 8 Oldfangled and; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 Interlinguistic Adequacy; 8.3 Intralinguistic Adequacy; 8.4 The Challenge of Mixed Partitions; 8.5 Conclusion; 9 The Form of the Phi Kernel; 9.1 Introduction; 9.2 Operations. 9.3 Order9.4 Combinatorics; 9.5 Valence; 9.6 Cognition and Evolution; 9.7 Conclusion; 10 Conclusion; A Empirical Appendices; A.1 Preponderant Syncretism in Georgian; A.2 Nonstandard Tripartitions?; B Formal Appendices; B.1 Zero Bottoming; B.2 -Internal Composition; B.3 Larger Ontologies; B.4 Privative Features; B.5 Number: Formal Details; Notes; References; Index. Grammar, Comparative and general Person. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056315 Grammar, Comparative and general Number. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056311 Grammar, Comparative and general Pronoun. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056322 Grammar, Comparative and general Morphosyntax. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001843 Semantics. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85119870 Universal grammar. Personne (Linguistique) Nombre (Linguistique) Pronom. Morphosyntaxe. Sémantique. semantics. aat LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES Grammar & Punctuation. bisacsh LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES Linguistics Syntax. bisacsh Grammar, Comparative and general Morphosyntax fast Grammar, Comparative and general Number fast Grammar, Comparative and general Person fast Grammar, Comparative and general Pronoun fast Semantics fast |
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