Finiteness matters : on finiteness-related phenomena in natural languages /

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Imprint:Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2016]
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
Series:Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics today (LA) ; volume 231
Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 231.
Subject:Finiteness (Linguistics)
Natural language processing.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Syntax.
Finiteness (Linguistics)
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11406644
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Other authors / contributors:Eide, Kristin M., 1965- editor.
ISBN:9789027266972
9027266972
9789027257147
9027257140
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:"Although standardly recognized by linguists of many diverse theoretical persuasions, finiteness continues to figure among [...] the most poorly understood concepts of linguistic theory". This was eloquently stated by Ledgeway (2000, 2007) and remains true even today. The present volume thus aims to shed some much needed light on this area of linguistic theorizing, with eleven chapters approaching finiteness phenomena from the fields of syntax, semantics, language acquisition, and Creole studies, and providing data from a range of different languages. Traditionally, approaches to finiteness within the Principles and Parameters framework have seen as their main aim to understand the relation between the morphological exponents of finiteness and the syntactic operations seemingly depending on these exponents. The papers in this volume mostly take their point of departure from this more traditional view on finiteness, before elaborating on, modifying and diverging from this tradition in novel and interesting ways.
Other form:Print version: Finiteness matters. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2016] 9789027257147