28 gener, 2021
Autors:
Martines, Josep, Susana Rodríguez & Jordi M. Antolí (eds.)
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Context and Linguistic ChangeEditorial: Bellaterra: Servei de Publicacions de la UAB
Col·lecció: Catalan Journal of Linguistics #2020 SpecialData de publicació: 2020
Pàgines: 204 Text complet
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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18 gener, 2022
Autors:
Francesc Torres-Tamarit & Teresa Cabré (eds.)
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Recursivity in PhonologyEditorial: Bellaterra: Servei de Publicacions de la UAB
Col·lecció: Catalan Journal of Linguistics #2021Data de publicació: 2021
Pàgines: 114 Text completIn November of 2019, a two-day workshop on "Recursivity in Phonology: below and above the word" was organized at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. The workshop featured Emily Elfner (York University, Canada), Junko Ito and Armin Mester (University of California, Santa Cruz) as keynote speakers. The following questions were addressed: does recursivity in phonology exist at all? If recursivity in phonology exists, what exactly can trigger a recursive structure in the syntax-prosody interface? Is recursivity restricted to higher-ordered phonological constituents like the phonological phrase and the intonational phrase? Does ternarity exist in phonology or should it be derived from recursive structures?
This 20th volume of the Catalan Journal of Linguistics presents a selection of the papers that were discussed during the workshop.
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25 gener, 2023
Autors:
Peter Herbeck, Paolo Izzo & Anna Kocher
Títol:
Catalan Morphosyntax at the Interfaces - Synchronic and Diachronic PerspectivesEditorial: Bellaterra: Servei de Publicacions de la UAB
Col·lecció: Catalan Journal of Linguistics #2022Data de publicació: 2022
Text completThe aim of the special issue Catalan Morphosyntax at the Interfaces is to gather recent investigations and offer new insights into Catalan core grammar and its inter-faces. This volume presents an extensive picture of the current research focused on Catalan grammar both from a synchronic and a diachronic perspective. The studies attain new theoretical findings relying on a strong empirical background. The contributions deal with interface phenomena in the verbal and (pro-) nominal domain. The main topics addressed are the following:
— the morphosyntax of clitics in Catalan and its varieties
— the nature and structure of different (pro-)nominal forms
— morphosyntax and the verbal domain (tense, aspect, word formation)
— Catalan morphosyntax and the interface to semantics, pragmatics, and phonol-ogy
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30 juny, 2023
Autors:
I. Ortega-Santos & E. Gutiérrez Rodríguez (eds.)
Títol:
Language Contact in Theoretical Syntax: Methodological Issues and Recent TrendsEditorial: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Servei de Publicacions
Col·lecció: Catalan Journal of Linguistics #2023Data de publicació: 2023
Pàgines: 148 Més informació
Text completWhile most syntactic research has naturally focused on varieties spoken by (supposedly) monolingual speakers, the study of language contact stands out as particularly relevant not only as celebration of linguistic diversity, but also from the theoretical point of view. For one thing, it expands the number of syntactic context available to test hypotheses by adding contact varieties and heritage languages as well as phenomena such as code-switching into the picture. Moreover, the study of language contact presents data collection challenges, which speak directly to ongoing debates on data collection standards in the field of syntax. In particular, there is an ongoing trend towards the adoption of experimental data collection methods and statistical analysis and/or the use of crowdsourcing and citizen science (e.g., see Gallego and Ortega-Santos 2019). Language-contact phenomena correspond to highly specific geolects/sociolects that are not necessarily spoken by the researchers. Thus, researchers are faced with the question of how to gather the data most efficiently and with generalizability; crucially, these issues are discussed explicitly in the corresponding publications, in contrast to most non-experimentalist or non-variationist syntactic research, thus helping the field of theoretical syntax as a whole adopt experimental data collection protocols. Furthermore, the study of language contact has figured prominently in the study of language change, with an emphasis on the extent to which language contact may cause syntactic changes – changes in the I-grammar, say, parameter resetting – and, if so, under what conditions (see Meisel et al. 2013 and references therein). Last but not least, this is also an area relevant to the study of external factors (e.g., language identity or language shift). As such, it lends itself to interdisciplinary work and hopefully crosspollination inthe study of the relationship between the grammar/competence and more usage-based notions such as frequency.
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