Segmental and prosodic issues in Romance phonology

19 juny, 2007

Autors:

Pilar Prieto, Joan Mascaró, Maria-Josep Solé

Títol:

Segmental and prosodic issues in Romance phonology

Editorial: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Data de publicació: 2007
Pàgines: 262
ISBN13: 9789027247971

Més informació

This volume is a collection of cutting-edge research papers written by well-known researchers in the field of Romance phonetics and phonology. An important goal of this book is to bridge the gap between traditional Romance linguistics — with its long and rich tradition in data collection, cross-language comparison, and phonetic variation — and laboratory phonology work. The book is organized around three main themes: segmental processes, prosody, and the acquisition of segments and prosody.
The various articles provide new empirical data on production, perception, sound change, first and second language learning, rhythm and intonation, presenting a state-of-the-art overview of research in laboratory phonology centred on Romance languages. The Romance data are used to test the predictions of a number of theoretical frameworks such as gestural phonology, exemplar models, generative phonology and optimality theory.
The book will constitute a useful companion volume for phoneticians, phonologists and researchers investigating sound structure in Romance languages, and will serve to generate further interest in laboratory phonology.

Rethinking Syntactocentrism

3 setembre, 2015

Autors:

Andreas Trotzke

Títol:

Rethinking Syntactocentrism. Architectural issues and case studies at the syntax-pragmatics interface

Editorial: John Benjamins
Data de publicació: 2015
ISBN13: 9789027257086

Més informació

The term ‘syntactocentrism’ has been used to criticize the claim that syntax, as regarded in generative linguistics, plays the central role in modeling the mental architecture of the human language faculty. This research monograph explores the conjecture that many of the objections to the generative perspective, as they are formulated in alternative frameworks such as construction grammar, disappear once the consequences of recent minimalist theory are taken seriously. To show this, the book applies recent concepts of minimalist grammar to phenomena like the syntactic flexibility of idioms, the pragmatics of left-periphery-movement, or opacity effects involved in subextraction patterns. The book makes a new contribution to the field, as existing monographs on architectural matters in minimalism neither discuss alternative frameworks at length nor place a premium on pragmatic explanations for syntactic facts. The primary audience of this book are researchers and graduate students interested in a state-of-the-art discussion of grammatical architecture.

Biolinguistics Special Issue on Recursion

27 juny, 2011

Autors:

Andreas Trotzke

Títol:

Biolinguistics Special Issue on Recursion. Biolinguistics 5, 1–169.

Data de publicació: 27 de juny de 2011
ISBN13: ISSN 1450–3417

Més informació

This special issue takes up three major concerns that have been raised by the recursion-only hypothesis by Hauser et al. (2002). The first concern is how to test for recursion in experimental psychology: Since we cannot test humans on infinite sets of sentences and furthermore self-embedding in the sense of (1) is difficult for humans to process, how can recursion best be tested for? The second major concern is the role of recursion in linguistic theory: Is recursion an integral part of any syntactic structure building or is recursion better viewed as something on top of more basic structure building? Finally, the third major concern this issue addresses is the relation of recursion to the genetic and neural basis of language. Can recursion be separated from other parts of language in the genetic and neural domain?

El orden de palabras en contraste

11 maig, 2019

Autors:

Xavier Villalba

Títol:

El orden de palabras en contraste

Editorial: Editorial Arco Libros
Data de publicació: 2019
Pàgines: 92

Con contadas excepciones, la tradición gramatical ha desterrado el orden de palabras del ámbito de estudio de la gramática y lo ha confinado al campo de la estilística. No obstante, como nos muestran los avances de la lingüística de las últimas décadas, en las lenguas como el español el orden de palabras es fundamental en la codificación tanto de aspectos gramaticales (por ejemplo, la naturaleza interrogativa de ciertas frases) como informativos (por ejemplo, el elemento sobre el que se articula la información en el contexto). A pesar de ello, casi no existen trabajos introductorios sobre este tema que aúnen la perspectiva gramatical y la informativa. En El orden de palabras en contraste se describen las propiedades básicas del orden de palabras, haciendo hincapié en las construcciones más comunes para poder ofrecer al lector una síntesis de los conceptos clave y de los avances teóricos actuales sobre el orden de palabras del español desde una perspectiva comparada, es decir, alternando la descripción detallada del español con numerosos ejemplos de lenguas de todo el mundo, para poder apreciar así los puntos de contacto y las diferencias. Se ofrece, asimismo, una bibliografía comentada con los títulos más importantes y numerosas sugerencias de actividades para reflexionar sobre los conceptos expuestos o trabajarlos en el aula. Por todo ello, este libro será de gran utilidad para alumnos universitarios, profesores de enseñanza media y de enseñanza del español como lengua extranjera, traductores y, en general, para cualquier persona interesada en la lingüística comparada del orden de palabras.

Gallego (2019). The Syntactic Variation of Spanish Dialects

25 setembre, 2019

syntactic variation of spanish dialects angel gallego

Autors:

Ángel Gallego (ed.)

Títol:

The Syntactic Variation of Spanish Dialects

Editorial: Oxford University Press
Data de publicació: 25 de setembre de 2019
ISBN13: 9780190634797

Més informació

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the syntactic variation of the dialects of Spanish. More precisely, it covers Spanish theoretical syntax that takes as its data source non-standard grammatical phenomena. 

Approaching the syntactic variation of Spanish dialects opens a door not only to the intricacies of the language, but also to a set of challenges of linguistic theory itself, including language variation, language contact, bilingualism, and diglossia. The volume is divided into two main sections, the first focusing on Iberian Spanish and the second on Latin American Spanish. Chapters cover a wide range of syntactic constructions and phenomena, such as clitics, agreement, subordination, differential object marking, expletives, predication, doubling, word order, and subjects. 

This volume constitutes a milestone in the study of syntactic variation, setting the stage for future work not only in vernacular Spanish, but all languages.