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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: Word
Subtitle: A Cross-linguistic Typology
Edited By: R. M. W. Dixon
Chia-jung Pan
Description:

In some languages words tend to be rather short but in others they may be dauntingly long. In this book, a distinguished international group of scholars discuss the concept "word" and its applicability in a range of typologically diverse languages. An introductory chapter sets the parameters of variation for "word". The nine chapters that follow then study the character of "word" in individual languages, including Amazonian, Australian Aboriginal, Eskimo, Native North American, West African, Balkan and Caucasian languages, and Indo-Pakistani Sign Language. These languages exhibit a huge range of phonological and grammatical characteristics, the close study of which enables the contributors to refine our understanding of what can constitute a "word". An epilogue explores the status and cross-linguistic properties of "word". The book will be an invaluable resource for scholars of linguistic typology and of morphology and phonology.

Publication Year: 2007
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Linguistic Field(s): Morphology
Typology

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Format: Paperback
ISBN: 052104605X
ISBN-13: 9780521046053
Pages: 304
Prices: U.K. £ 27.99
U.S. $ 52.00