CJL (2019). Special Issue: Generative Syntax. Questions, Crossroads, and Challenges

Autors:

Gallego, Ángel J. & Dennis Ott

Títol:

Generative Syntax. Questions, Crossroads, and Challenges

Editorial: Bellaterra: Servei de Publicacions de la UAB
Col·lecció: Catalan Journal of Linguistics #2019 Special
Data de publicació: 2019
Pàgines: 288

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This special issue of the CJL grew out of a workshop that took place at the UAB in the summer of 2017. The declared goal of the event was to reconsider the questions that motivate Generative Grammar and the answers given thus far, the crossroads that its practitioners must navigate, and the challenges they face given the current state of the field. These are the issues addressed by the papers collected here.


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CJL (2020). Gender and number in the nominal domain

Autors:

Arsenijević, Boban & Olga Borik

Títol:

Gender and number in the nominal domain

Editorial: Bellaterra: Servei de Publicacions de la UAB
Col·lecció: Catalan Journal of Linguistics #2020
Data de publicació: 2020
Pàgines: 260

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Grammatical gender and number have been studied from a variety of theoretical viewpoints and still there is no commonly established and well-defined view on the nature of the two categories. The term ‘gender’ is used for a range of grammatical phenomena, including noun-classification into corresponding inflection classes and syntactically conditioned rules of agreement and concord. Like grammatical gender, grammatical number can be realized through inflection on the noun and/or through the agreement that it triggers on other items. However, unlike grammatical gender, grammatical number has stable, straightforward and systematic interpretive effects, related to the quantity of the predicate denoted by the noun, and hence also of the referent when the nominal expression is referential. Number and gender are core features of nouns and make up or participate in some of the hallmark properties of natural language.


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CJL (2020). Special Issue – Context and Linguistic Change

Autors:

Martines, Josep, Susana Rodríguez & Jordi M. Antolí (eds.)

Títol:

Context and Linguistic Change

Editorial: Bellaterra: Servei de Publicacions de la UAB
Col·lecció: Catalan Journal of Linguistics #2020 Special
Data de publicació: 2020
Pàgines: 204

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The papers integrating this special issue aim at shedding light on the many research possibilities suggested by usage-based linguistics. All the contributions have different goals, focus on different languages (Catalan, English, Spanish or Portuguese), use several chronological frameworks (there are diachronic and synchronic analysis) and approach a variety of linguistic elements. However, despite this seeming heterogeneity, all the papers share a similar methodology and a conception of linguistic communication – and, specifically, of linguistic change – strongly based on usage.

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