The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Interfaces
This state-of-the-art guide to some of the most exciting work in current linguistics explores how the core components of the language faculty interact. It examines how these interactions are reflected in linguistic and cognitive theory, considers what they reveal about the operations of language within the mind, and looks at their reflections in expression and communication. Leading international scholars present cutting-edge accounts of developments in the interfaces between phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. They bring to bear a rich variety of methods and theoretical perspectives, focus on a broad array of issues and problems, and illustrate their arguments from a wide range of the world's languages.

After the editors' introduction to its structure, scope, and content, the book is divided into four parts. The first, Sound, is concerned with the interfaces between phonetics and phonology, phonology and morphology, and phonology and syntax. Part II, Structure, considers the interactions of syntax with morphology, semantics, and the lexicon, and explores the status of the word and its representional status in the mind. Part III, Meaning, revisits the syntax-semantics interface from the perspective of compositionality, and looks at issues concerned with intonation, discourse, and context. The authors in the final part of the book, General Architectural Concerns, examine work on Universal Grammar, the overall model of language, and linguistic and associated theories of language and cognition.

All scholars and advanced students of language will value this book, whether they are in linguistics, cognitive science, philosophy, artificial intelligence, computational science, or informatics.
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The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Interfaces
This state-of-the-art guide to some of the most exciting work in current linguistics explores how the core components of the language faculty interact. It examines how these interactions are reflected in linguistic and cognitive theory, considers what they reveal about the operations of language within the mind, and looks at their reflections in expression and communication. Leading international scholars present cutting-edge accounts of developments in the interfaces between phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. They bring to bear a rich variety of methods and theoretical perspectives, focus on a broad array of issues and problems, and illustrate their arguments from a wide range of the world's languages.

After the editors' introduction to its structure, scope, and content, the book is divided into four parts. The first, Sound, is concerned with the interfaces between phonetics and phonology, phonology and morphology, and phonology and syntax. Part II, Structure, considers the interactions of syntax with morphology, semantics, and the lexicon, and explores the status of the word and its representional status in the mind. Part III, Meaning, revisits the syntax-semantics interface from the perspective of compositionality, and looks at issues concerned with intonation, discourse, and context. The authors in the final part of the book, General Architectural Concerns, examine work on Universal Grammar, the overall model of language, and linguistic and associated theories of language and cognition.

All scholars and advanced students of language will value this book, whether they are in linguistics, cognitive science, philosophy, artificial intelligence, computational science, or informatics.
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The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Interfaces

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This state-of-the-art guide to some of the most exciting work in current linguistics explores how the core components of the language faculty interact. It examines how these interactions are reflected in linguistic and cognitive theory, considers what they reveal about the operations of language within the mind, and looks at their reflections in expression and communication. Leading international scholars present cutting-edge accounts of developments in the interfaces between phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. They bring to bear a rich variety of methods and theoretical perspectives, focus on a broad array of issues and problems, and illustrate their arguments from a wide range of the world's languages.

After the editors' introduction to its structure, scope, and content, the book is divided into four parts. The first, Sound, is concerned with the interfaces between phonetics and phonology, phonology and morphology, and phonology and syntax. Part II, Structure, considers the interactions of syntax with morphology, semantics, and the lexicon, and explores the status of the word and its representional status in the mind. Part III, Meaning, revisits the syntax-semantics interface from the perspective of compositionality, and looks at issues concerned with intonation, discourse, and context. The authors in the final part of the book, General Architectural Concerns, examine work on Universal Grammar, the overall model of language, and linguistic and associated theories of language and cognition.

All scholars and advanced students of language will value this book, whether they are in linguistics, cognitive science, philosophy, artificial intelligence, computational science, or informatics.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780199247455
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 05/03/2007
Series: Oxford Handbooks
Pages: 688
Product dimensions: 9.77(w) x 6.90(h) x 1.73(d)

About the Author

Gillian Ramchand was born in Scotland, and grew up in Britain and the Caribbean. After receiving her PhD in Linguistics from Stanford University, she worked as Lecturer in General Linguistics at Oxford University for ten years, and is now Professor of Linguistics at University of Tromsø. She is interested in issues at the syntax-semantics interface, especially in the areas of aspect and argument structure, and has worked on both the Bengali and Scottish Gaelic languages.

Charles Reiss is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Concordia University in Montréal. He is interested in phonology, language acquisition, cognitive science and historical linguistics. His 1995 Harvard PhD dissertation A Theory of Assimilation, with special reference to Old Icelandic Phonology combined insights from all these domains, and he continues to publish journal articles and book chapters in this interdisciplinary vein.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction, Gillian Ramchand and Charles ReissPart I Sound2. Interface and Overlap in Phonetics and Phonology, James Scobbie3. Modularity in the SOund Domain, Charles Reiss4. The Phonetics-Phonology Interface and the Acquisition of Perseverant Underspecification, Mark Hale and Madelyn Kissock5. Phonology-Morphology Interaction in a COnstraint-based Framework, Orhan Orgun and Andrew Dolbey6. Segmental Phonology and Syntactic Structure, Gorka ElordietaPart II Structure7. Structured Events, Structured Discourse, Sara Rosen8. On the Relation Between Morphology and Syntax, Marit Julien9. 1...3-2, Peter Svenious10. Distributed Morphology and the Syntax/Morphology Interface, David Embick and Ralf Noyer11. Morphology does not equal Syntax, Peter Ackema and Ad Neeleman12. Dumping Lexicalism, Edwin Williams13. Paradigm Function Morphology and the Morphology-Syntax, Thomas Stewart and Gregory StumpPart III Meaning14. Some Consequences of Compositionality, James Higginbotham15. Semantics, Intonation and Information Structure, Daniel Büring16. Conventional Implicatures: A Distinguished Class of Meanings, Christopher Potts17. Accommodation, David Beaver and Henk ZeevatPart IV Architecture18. Minimalism, Cedric Boeckx and Juan Uriagereka19. The Computation, Mark Steedman20. Constraint Based Grammar, Jonas KuhnThe AuthorsLanguage IndexSubject and Name Index
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