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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: Changing Valency
Subtitle: Case Studies in Transitivity
Edited By: R. M. W. Dixon
Chia-jung Pan
Description:

Note: This is a new version of a previously announced book.

This book provides a general perspective on valency-changing mechanisms - passives, antipassives, causatives, applicatives - in the languages of the world. It contains a comprehensive typology of causatives by R. M. W. Dixon, and detailed descriptions of valency-changing mechanisms in ten individual languages by leading scholars, based on original fieldwork. The sample languages span five continents and every kind of structural profile. Each contributor draws out the theoretical status and implications of valency-changing derivations in their language of study, and the relevant parameters are drawn together, and typological possibilities delineated, in the editors’ introduction. The volume, originally published in 2000, will interest typologists, those working in the fields of morphosyntactic variation and lexical semantics, and exponents of formal theories engaging with the range of linguistic diversity found in natural language.

Publication Year: 2010
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Linguistic Field(s): Morphology
Syntax
Typology

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Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780521135207
Prices: U.K. £ 23.99
U.S. $ 43.00