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Morphosyntactic Features
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| Author: | Mike_Maxwell Mike_Maxwell | |
| Submitter Email: | click here to access email | |
| Linguistic LingField(s): |
Syntax
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| Summary: |
In LINGUIST List 9.1405, I asked whether anyone knew of work on universals of morphosyntactic features, parallel to the familiar sorts of (hopefully) universal phonetic features such as [voiced], [coronal] etc. That was back in October, and I regret to say that I've received only one reply (plus a query or two along the same line). The reply comes from Phoevos Panagiotidis (epanag@essex.ac.uk), who I understand is working on his PhD in the Department of Language and Linguistics at the University of Essex. He kindly shared a portion of his thesis having to do with person features, in which he argues for the features [+/- speaker] and [+/- hearer], and cites as references Banveniste (1966), Ingram (in J.H. Greenberg's "Universals of human language v.3"), and Halle (1997) in MITWPL. This and some work by Noyer at MIT (under Halle) on number features, plus the older work on part of speech (category) features by Chomsky and by Jackendoff, is all I know of. I find it surprising that there aren't more results on morphosyntactic feature universals, but I guess that means it's a wide open field for graduate students! BTW, I had earlier posted a similar query to the HPSG mailing list, but got no replies. Mike Maxwell Summer Institute of Linguistics Mike_Maxwell@sil.org |
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| LL Issue: | 9.1599 | |
| Date Posted: | 13-Nov-1998 | |
| Original Query: | Read original query | |
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