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csli.stanford.edu>Title: Mismatch Subtitle: Form-Function Incongruity and the Architecture of Grammar Series Title: CSLI Lecture Notes # 163 Publication Year: 2003 Publisher: CSLI Publications http://csli-publications.stanford.edu/ Editor: Elaine J. Francis, Purdue University Editor: Laura A. Michaelis, University of Colorado at Boulder Paperback: ISBN: 1575863847, Pages: 440, Price: U.S. $ Comment: Contact University of Chicago Press for price information. Abstract: Linguistic mismatch occurs when formal devices such as words, morphemes, and grammatical constructions are recruited to perform semiotic functions distinct from those for which they were apparently developed. One example is that of quantificational nouns: while the typical function of a noun is to denote an object or entity, the English nouns lot and bunch perform a function otherwise associated with quantifiers. How do such phenomena challenge traditional conceptions of grammar? How do competing theories of the syntax-semantics interface stand up when confronted with mismatch phenomena? Mismatch addresses these questions through the efforts of some of the most original thinkers in syntactic and semantic theory, exploring a wide variety of mismatch phenomena in a broad sampling of languages. This work includes contributions from Farrell Ackerman, Alex Alsina, Henri�tte de Swart, Elaine J. Francis, Adele E. Goldberg, Richard Hudson, Robert Malouf, Laura A. Michaelis, Frederick J. Newmeyer, Maria Mercedes Pi�ango, Jerrold M. Sadock, and Etsuyo Yuasa. To order this book, contact The University of Chicago Press. Call their toll free order number 1-800-621-2736 (U.S. & Canada only) or order online at http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ (use the search feature to locate the book, then order). Lingfield(s): Linguistic Theories Semantics Syntax Written In: English (Language Code: ENG) See this book announcement on our website: http://linguistlist.org/get-book.html?BookID=10015.Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue