Language Universals and Variation (Perspectives on Cognitive Science) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0275976831 ISBN 13: 9780275976835

Publisher: Praeger Publishers Inc, 2002

Synopsis

Issues addressed in this contributed volume include lexical semantics, morphosyntax, and phonology based on the broad theme of formal approaches to language universals and variation. Aspects of natural language variation are investigated from a formal theoretical perspective, including the Principles and Parameters/Minimalist Program, Lexical Functional Grammar and Optimality Theory. A wide range of languages and language families are considered, including Amharic, Arabic, Bantu, Berber, Chamorro, English, French, Japanese, Malyalam, Polish, Spanish, Tagalog, Turkish, and Warlpiri.

This is an important addition to the growing body of literature on language universals and variation from formal theoretical perspectives. It will be a useful reference to linguistics specialists and other cognitive scientists. The topics covered are also diverse, ranging from pronominal clitic variation in dialects of Spanish to passives in Bantu and Polish and the typology of Wh-in-situ questions and vowel place constraints.

About this title

About the Author

Peter Collins is a retired Professor of Linguistics from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.

Edition details

• Publisher: Praeger Publishers Inc
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0275976831
• ISBN 13: 9780275976835
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 296
• Editor: Amberber Mengistu, Collins Peter