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The Structural Design of Language

By Thomas S. Stroik, Michael T. Putnam

In this book, Stroik and Putnam take on Turing's challenge. They argue that the narrow syntax – the lexicon, the Numeration, and the computational system – must reside, for reasons of conceptual necessity, within the performance systems.


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Title: Experiential Constructions in Yucatec Maya
Subtitle: A typologically based analysis of a functional domain in a Mayan language
Written By: Elisabeth Verhoeven
URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=SLCS%2087
Series Title: Studies in Language Companion Series 87
Description:

This book combines a fieldwork-based language-specific analysis with a typological investigation. It offers a detailed and comprehensive analysis of the form and semantics of experiencer constructions in Yucatec, the Mayan language of the Yucatecan peninsula in Mexico. Since the linguistic expression of experience is not restricted to a specific grammatical area the study touches a great variety of grammatical fields in the language such as argument structure, grammatical relations, possessive constructions, subordinate constructions, etc. The empirical analysis of the Yucatec data is preceded by a thorough examination of the functional domain and the cross-linguistic coding of experience which until now could not be found in the literature. This study will be of interest to scholars working in the fields of typology and Native American linguistics, and especially to those interested in argument structure and the syntax-semantics interface.

Publication Year: 2007
Publisher: John Benjamins
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Linguistic Field(s): Syntax
Typology
Subject Language(s): Yucateco

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Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9027230978
ISBN-13: N/A
Pages: 394
Prices: Europe EURO 120.00
U.S. $ 162.00