Sound and grammar : a neo-Sapirian theory of language /

Sound and grammar : a neo-Sapirian theory of language /

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Author / Creator:Schmerling, Susan F., author.
Imprint:Leiden, The Netherlands : Brill, [2019]
Description:xix, 179 pages ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Series:Empirical approaches to linguistic theory, 2210-6243 ; volume 12
Empirical approaches to linguistic theory ; 12.
Subject:
Sapir, Edward, -- 1884-1939.
Language and languages.
Linguistics.
Linguistics -- Philosophy.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11752441
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ISBN:9004375449
9789004375444
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-174) and index.
Summary:Sound and Grammar: A Neo-Sapirian Theory of Language by Susan F. Schmerling offers an original overall linguistic theory based on the work of the early American linguist Edward Sapir, supplemented with ideas from the philosopher-logicians Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz and Richard Montague and the linguist Elisabeth Selkirk. The theory yields an improved understanding of interactions among different aspects of linguistic structure, resolving notorious issues directly inherited by current theory from (post- ) Bloomfieldian linguistics. In the theory presented here, syntax is a filter on a phonological algebra, not a linguistic level; linguistic expressions are phonological structures, and syntax is semantically relevant relations among phonological structures. The book shows how Neo-Sapirian grammar sheds new light on syntax-phonology interactions in English, German, French, and Spanish.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Prologue
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The Neo-Sapirian Model
  • 2.1. Foundations
  • 2.2. The Resolution of Traditional Segmentation Problems
  • 2.3. Implications for a Theory of Syntactic Categories
  • 3. An NSG-Based Theory of Syntax
  • 3.1. Motivation
  • 3.2. The Role of Prosodically Defined Operations
  • 3.3. Natural Languages as Systems of Reference
  • 4. The NSG Theory Applied to the Syntax (and Semantics) of English Imperatives
  • 5. A Case Study: NP-Internal Structure in German
  • 5.1. Preliminary Remarks on Case in NSG
  • 5.2. A Non-Traditional Understanding of Case in German
  • 5.3. A Further Look at NP-Internal Syntax in German
  • 6. An NSG Study of English Finite Clauses
  • 6.1. A Brief Look at a Little Recognized Lack of Regularity
  • 6.2. An Introductory Look at Indicative Morphosyntax
  • 6.3. Modal Auxiliaries
  • 6.4. On Indicative Negation
  • 6.5. Active Past Participle Constructions
  • 6.6. Copula Constructions
  • 6.7. Some Consequences
  • 6.5. An English Grammar Fragment Focusing on Auxiliaries
  • Formal Operations
  • Basic and Derived Categories
  • Syntactic Rules
  • 6.9. A Postscript on English Subjunctive Clauses
  • 7. French (and Spanish) Preposition-Article Portmanteaus as Phonologic idly Conditioned Phrase-Level Allomorphy
  • 7.1. The Problem
  • 7.2. An Excursus on Spanish
  • 7.3. French and Spanish Preposition-Article Portmanteaus as Typologically Distinct from Preposition-Article Portmanteaus in German
  • 8. Aligning Syntactic Constituents and Phonological Phrases in English
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix A. Categorematic and Syncategorematic Expressions in Simple Categorial Grammars
  • Appendix B. Examples Belonging to Different English Clause Types
  • References
  • Index
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