LINGUIST List 26.5189

Thu Nov 19 2015

Books: Contemporary Linguistic Parameters: Fábregas, Mateu, Putnam (eds.)

Editor for this issue: Sara Couture <saralinguistlist.org>

Date: 07-Nov-2015
From: Lianna Iwanikiw <lianna.iwanikiwbloomsbury.com>
Subject: Contemporary Linguistic Parameters: Fábregas, Mateu, Putnam (eds.)
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Title: Contemporary Linguistic Parameters
Series Title: Contemporary Studies in Linguistics
Published: 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (formerly The Continuum International Publishing Group)
                http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/

Book URL: http://www.bloomsbury.com/contemporary-linguistic-parameters-9781472533937/

Editor: Antonio Fábregas
Editor: Jaume Mateu
Editor: Michael T. Putnam
Electronic: ISBN: 9781472532718 Pages: 384 Price: U.K. £ 99.99 Comment: EPUB
Electronic: ISBN: 9781472525901 Pages: 384 Price: U.K. £ 99.99 Comment: PDF
Hardback: ISBN: 9781472533937 Pages: 448 Price: U.K. £ 100.00
Abstract:

Parameters have lain at the core of linguistic research in the generative tradition for decades. The theoretical questions they have raised are deep and broad: this reference text investigates how contemporary linguistics has best tried to answer them.

This book looks at how parameters might be properly defined and what their locus might be: lexical information, functional heads, the computational system, the phonological branch of the grammar. What kind of data forms trigger acquisition of a parameter? Are parameters necessary or can we study languages without making reference to them?

The questions looked at are not just theoretical: how can a theory of parameters be used to help understand second language acquisition, and what contributions can it make to the study of language typology?

This is the right time to gather all this information, dispersed in many different kinds of publications by single authors and groups, into one comprehensive volume.

Linguistic Field(s): Discipline of Linguistics
                            General Linguistics
                            Language Acquisition
                            Typology

Written In: English (eng)

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