LINGUIST List 12.2318

Thu Sep 20 2001

Books: Historical Linguistics, Syntax/Semantics

Editor for this issue: Naomi Ogasawara <naomilinguistlist.org>

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1. Gillian Caglayan, Historical Ling:Constraints and Preferences, Dziubalska-Kolaczyk (Ed.)
2. Gillian Caglayan, Syntax/Semantics: Current Issues in Spanish Syntax and Semantics

>From the series
Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs
Series Editors: Walter Bisang, Werner Winter

Constraints and Preferences
Edited by Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kolaczyk
2001. 23 x 15,5 cm. xix, 401 pages. Cloth.
DM 218,- / �S 1591,- (RRP) / sFr 187,- / approx. US$ 108.00 /
>From 01.01.2002: EUR 108,-
ISBN 3-11-017047-7

(Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs 134)

The central theme of this collection is the epistemological status of
constraints and preferences in linguistics. The contributions focus
mainly on phonology; one article deals explicitly with morphology. The
approaches to phonology represented in the volume are those of Natural
Phonology, Government Phonology, Optimality Theory, autosegemental
phonology, and computational phonology. Constraints are juxtaposed
either to rules or to preferences in the discussion of
constraint-based vs. preference-based theories.

FROM THE CONTENTS:

Eugeniusz Cyran: Parameters and scales in syllable markedness: the right
edge of the word in Malayalam

Patricia Donegan:Constraints and processes in phonological perception

Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kolaczyk: Phonotactic constraints are preferences

Livio Gaeta: Striving for optimality: output-oriented models of language
change

Dafydd Gibbon: Preferences as defaults in computational phonology

Janet Grijzenhout: Devoicing and voicing assimilation in German, English
and Dutch: a case of constraint interaction

Edmund Gussmann: Hidden identity, or the double life of segments

Jonathan Kaye: Working with licensing constraints

Michele Loporcaro: Rules vs. constraints in modeling phonological
change: the case of Raddoppiamento Fonosintattico

Nikolaus Ritt: Are optimality theoretical "constraints" the same as
natural linguistic "preferences"?

Philippe S�g�ral and Tobias Scheer: Abstractness in phonology: the case
of virtual geminates

Rajendra Singh: Constraints, preferences, and context-sensitivity in
morphology

Jerzy W�jcik: Old English fricatives: lenition and licensing


For more information please contact the publisher:
Mouton de Gruyter
Genthiner Str. 13
10785 Berlin, Germany
Fax: +49 30 26005 222
e-mail: ordersdegruyter.de

Please visit our website for other publications by Mouton de Gruyter
http://www.degruyter.com

>From the series Studies in Generative Grammar
Series Editors: Henk van Riemsdijk, Harry van der Hulst and Jan Koster

Current Issues in Spanish Syntax and Semantics
Edited by Javier Guti�rrez-R�xach and Luis Silva-Villar

2001. 23 x 15,5 cm. vi, 354 pages.
Cloth. DM 178,- / �S 1299,- (RRP) / sFr 153,- / approx. US$ 88.00 /
>From 01.01.2002: EUR 88,-
ISBN 3-11-016929-0

(Studies in Generative Grammar 53)


This volume contains thirteen papers that use Spanish data to treat a
series of problems which are central to current linguistic theory and
provide up-to date analyses of these data.. The papers deal with
connected syntactic and semantic issues in different dialects of
Spanish, in related languages (Galician, Catalan, German, etc.) or in
different stages in the evolution or acquisition of Spanish. Thus, the
book will be of interest for theoretical, descriptive, contrastive and
pedagogical purposes.

>From the contents:

I: THE STRUCTURE AND INTERPRETATION OF THE DETERMINER PHRASE
Ignacio Bosque: Adjective Position and the Interpretation of Indefinites
Enrique Mallen: Issues in the Syntax of DP in Romance and Germanic
Eugenia Casielles: The Syntax and Semantics of Preverbal Topical Phrases
 in Spanish

II. CLITICS
Jon Franco: On the Doubling of Overt Operators
Javier Guti�rrez-Rexach: Interface Conditions and the Semantics of
 Argument Clitics
Javier Guti�rrez-Rexach: Adverbial Weak Pronouns: Derivation and
 Interpretation
V�ctor Longa and Guillermo Lorenzo: 
Universal Constraint 'Superfluous' Elements: The Case of Galician 'Arb Che'

Marta Luj�n and Claudia Parodi: Clitic Doubling and the Acquisition of
 Agreement in Spanish

III. VERBAL AND TEMPORAL PROPERTIES; AND THE STRUCTURE OF THE CAUSE
Luis L�pez: The Causee and the Theory of Bare Phrase Structure
Gerhard Brugger: Temporal Modification, the 24-Hour Rule and the
 Location of Reference Time
Clancy Clements: Ergative Patterning in Spanish
John Grinstead: Morphological Underspecification and Overt Subjects in
 Child Catalan and Spanish
Luis Silva-Villar: Verbless Derivations in Historical Syntax: A Case
 Study of Northwestern Iberian Languages


For more information please contact the publisher:
Mouton de Gruyter
Genthiner Str. 13
10785 Berlin, Germany
Fax: +49 30 26005 222
e-mail: ordersdegruyter.de

Please visit our website for other publications by Mouton de Gruyter
http://www.degruyter.com