Dependencies in language On the causal ontology of linguistic systems

Dependency is a fundamental concept in the analysis of linguistic systems. The many if-then statements offered in typology and grammar-writing imply a causally real notion of dependency that is central to the claim being made--usually with reference to widely varying timescales and types of processe...

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Otros Autores: Enfield, N. J., author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin : Language Science Press 2017.
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  • 1. Dependencies in language / N. J. Enfield 2. Implicational universals and dependencies / Sonia Cristofaro 3. New approaches to Greenbergian word order dependencies / Jennifer Culbertson 4. From biology to language change and diversity / Dan Dediu 5. Language intertwined across multiple timescales: processing, acquisition and evolution / Morten H. Christiansen 6. What comes first in language emergence? / Wendy Sandler 7. Is language development dependent on early communicative development? / Elena Lieven 8. Dependency and relative determination in language acquisition: the case of Ku Waru / Alan Rumsey 9. Beyond binary dependencies in language structure / Damián E. Blasi & Seán G. Roberts 10. Real and spurious correlations involving tonal languages / Jeremy Collins 11. What (else) depends on phonology? / Larry H. Hyman 12. Dependencies in phonology: hierarchies and variation / Keren Rice 13. Understanding intra-system dependencies: classifiers in Lao / Sebastian Fedden & Greville G. Corbett 14. Structural and semantic dependencies in word class / William A. Foley 15. On the margins of language: ideophones, interjections and dependencies in linguistic theory / Mark Dingemanse.