LINGUIST List 5.1275

Fri 11 Nov 1994

Books: Romance Ling, Syntax, Phonology

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    ROMANCE LING Davis, Stuart Napoli, Donna Jo A PROSODIC TEMPLATE IN HISTORICAL CHANGE: THE PASSAGE OF THE LATIN SECOND CONJUGATION INTO ROMANCE 1994 170pp. paperbound approx. USD 30 Rosenberg & Sellier via Andrea Doria 14, I-10123 Torino (credit card accepted) The book offers a novel approach to a longstanding problem, the demise of the Latin 2nd conjugation. The authors show that a prosodic analysis may account for the historical change that occurred in Italianm Romanian, French, Provencal, Catalan, and several Raeto-Romance dialects. It is a successful application of prosodic morphology to a diachronic problem. fax: ++39/(0)50/563513 I-56126 PISA ///// SYNTAX The Syntax and Pragmatics of Anaphora A Study with Special Reference to Chinese (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics 70) Cambridge University Press Yan Huang Department of Linguistics, University of Reading This book develops a pragmatic theory of anaphora within the neo-Gricean framework of conversational implicature. Chomsky claims that anaphora reflects underlying principles of innate Universal Grammar, and the view is widely held that only syntactic and semantic factors are crucial to intrasentential anaphora. Yan Huang questions the basis of the Government and Binding approach and argues that syntax and pragmatics are interconnected in determining many anaphoric processes. Furthermore, he proposes that the extent to which syntax and pragmatics interact varies typologically. There exists a class of language (such as Chinese, Japanese and Korean) in which pragmatics plays a central role that in familiar European languages is alleged to be played by grammar. Yan Huang's pragmatic theory has far-reaching implications for this important issue in theoretical linguistics. 1994, 349 pp. Hardback 0 521 41887 9 Dwivedi, Veena. (University of Massachusetts, Amherst); Syntactic Dependencies and Relative Phrases in Hindi, Pb. xvii + 249 pp. Ph.D. dissertation, 1994. $16 + S/H ($3 domestic, $4 foreign surface). Graduate Linguistic Student Association (GLSA), University of Massachusetts, Amherst. This dissertation explores various syntactic dependencies from relative phrases in Hindi. In addition to Scrambling, Topicalisation and Left Dislocation, Topic Dislocation is recognized. This non-movement relation is limited to referential NPs which are related to null pronominals; because no movement is involved, Topic Dislocation is not subject to Subjancency. Several cases of asymmetric coordination, including correlatives and 'that' clauses, are also explored in detail. For further information, contact glsalinguist.umass.edu. PHONOLOGY Sherer, Tim D. (University of Massachusetts, Amherst); Prosodic Phonotactics, Pb. xiii + 225 pp. Ph.D. dissertation, 1994. $16 + S/H ($3 domestic, $4 foreign surface). Graduate Linguistic Student Association (GLSA), University of Massachusetts, Amherst. This dissertation deals with the possibility of having syllable final consonants, including geminate consonants, and the interaction of such consonants with syllable weight and vowel length, by means of the moraic tier. The goal of this work is to have the range of patterns of consonant occurrence and vowel length follow from simple patterns in simple interactions. Predictions about possible phonological patterns are made via the interaction of simple constraints in Optimality Theory. Extensive treatments of over-filled (hypercharacterized) syllables, appendix consonants and gemination are provided. Rosenthall, Sam. (University of Massachusetts, Amherst); Vowel/Glide Alternation in a Theory of Constraint Interaction, Pb. viii + 243 pp. Ph.D. dissertation, 1994. $16 + S/H ($3 domestic, $4 foreign surface). Graduate Linguistic Student Association (GLSA), University of Massachusetts, Amherst. This work examines the distribution of high vowels and glides using Optimality Theory. The distribution of high vowels and glides is shown to be a consequence of simultaneously comparing moraic and nonmoraic syllabifications of high vowels for satisfaction of phonological constraints. Three main phenomena are investigated: the syllabification of vowel sequences in languages with only surface monophthongal vowels, the interaction of stress and high vowel distribution, and the phenomenon of glide vocalization. For further information, contact glsalinguist.umass.edu.
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