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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
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| Language: | English |
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Berlin :
Language Science Press,
2017.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- 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.
