LINGUIST List 26.3166
Tue Jul 07 2015
FYI: Open Review of Grammatical Theory Book
Editor for this issue: Ashley Parker <ashleylinguistlist.org>
Date: 07-Jul-2015
From: Stefan Müller <Stefan.Mueller
fu-berlin.de>
Subject: Open Review of Grammatical Theory Book
E-mail this message to a friend Dear Colleagues,
A further comment about Open Review and the grammatical theory textbook:
The idea of Open Review as we see it at Language Science Press is to get everybody involved and get better books in the end. After the initial submission of manuscripts we have a peer review (at least two external reviewers) and this is followed by an optional Open Review phase. The Open Review phase allows everybody to comment, that is, it is open for PhD students, who would normally not be asked in the peer reviewing phase. However, I think that many of the PhD students have more time then the peers and are more specialized in the area of their PhD. So this is a valuable resource.
Last week I took part at a workshop and participants said: ''Yes, Open Review is a great idea but a 700 page book ...''. The open reviews do not have to be reviews of complete books. Reviewers can comment on individual chapters or even smaller units. In the grammar theory textbook experts on a certain framework (GB, Minimalism, HPSG, LFG, CG, CxG, DG, TAG) may comment on this framework. There are general topics that may be commented on.
This is the TOC:
- Introduction
- Phrase Structure Grammar
- Transformational Grammar – Government & Binding
- Transformational Grammar – Minimalism
- Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar
- Feature Descriptions
- Lexical Functional Grammar
- Categorial Grammar
- Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar
- Construction Grammar
- Dependency Grammar
- Tree Adjoining Grammar
- Innateness of linguistic knowledge
- Generative-enumerative vs. model-theoretic approaches
- Competence/performance distinction
- Language acquisition
- Binary branching
- Generative capacity and grammatical formalisms
- Locality
- Recursion
- Empty Elements
- Extraction, scrambling, and passive: one or several descriptive devices?
- Phrasal vs. lexical analyses
- Universal Grammar and comparative linguistics without UG Conclusion
The reviewing software allows annotations in the PDF:
http://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/25/ but of course more traditional forms of reviews are possible as well.
Reviewers will be rewarded in our gamification system (to be
implemented). For now there is a hall of fame:
http://langsci-press.org/about/hallOfFame Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
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