LINGUIST List 17.2076

Tue Jul 18 2006

Books: Linguistic Theories: Corbett, Fraser, McGlashan (Eds)

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Directory         1.    Joyce Reid, Heads in Grammatical Theory: Corbett, Fraser, McGlashan (Eds)
Message 1: Heads in Grammatical Theory: Corbett, Fraser, McGlashan (Eds)
Date: 14-Jul-2006
From: Joyce Reid <jreidcup.org>
Subject: Heads in Grammatical Theory: Corbett, Fraser, McGlashan (Eds)


Title: Heads in Grammatical Theory Published: 2006 Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Book URL: http://us.cambridge.org/titles/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521026529

Editor: Greville G. Corbett Editor: Norman M. Fraser Editor: Scott McGlashan Paperback: ISBN: 0521026520 Pages: 350 Price: U.S. $ 50.00
Paperback: ISBN: 0521026520 Pages: 350 Price: U.K. £ 27.99
Abstract:

Contemporary linguistic theories distinguish the principal element of aphrase - the 'head' - from the subordinate elements it dominates. Thispervasive grammatical concept has been used to describe and account forlinguistic phenomena ranging from agreement and government to word orderuniversals, but opinions differ widely on its precise definition. A keyquestion is whether the head is not already identified by some other, morebasic notion or interacting set of notions in linguistics. Heads inGrammatical Theory is the first book devoted to the subject. Providing aclear view of current research on heads, some of the foremost linguists inthe field tackle the problems set by the assumptions of particulargrammatical theories and offer insights which have relevance acrosstheories. Questions considered include whether there is a theory-neutraldefinition of head, whether heads have cognitive reality, how to identifythe head of a phrase, and whether there are any universal correlationsbetween headedness and deletability.

List of contributors;1. Introduction Norman M. Fraser, Greville G. Corbett and Scott McGlashan;2. The head of Russian numeral expressions Greville G. Corbett;3. The phonology of heads in Haruai Bernard Comrie;4. Patterns of headedness Ronnie Cann;5. Head-hunting on the trail of the nominal Janus Andrew Radford;6. The headedness of noun-phrases: slaying the nominal hydra John Payne;7. Head- versus dependent-marking: the case of the clause Nigel Vincent;8. Heads in discourse: structural versus functional centricity JohannaNichols;9. Heads in head-driven phrase structure grammar Robert D. Borsley;10. Heads and lexical semantics Scott McGlashan;11. Heads, parsing and word-order universals John A. Hawkins;12. Do we have heads in our minds? Richard A. Hudson;13. Heads, bases and functors Arnold M. Zwicky;References;Index.


Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories
Written In: English (eng )

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