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Formal Approaches to Function in Grammar
In honor of Eloise Jelinek
The contributions making up this volume in honor of Eloise Jelinek are written from a formalist perspective that deals with stereotypically functionalist questions about language. Jelinek's pioneering work in formalist syntax has shown that autonomous syntax need not exist in a vacuum. Her work has highlighted the importance of incorporating the effects of discourse and information structure on the syntactic representation. This book aims to invoke Jelinek's work either in substance or spirit. The focus is on Jelinek's influential Pronominal Argument Hypothesis as an "non-configurational" language; the influence of discourse-related interface phenomena on syntactic structure; the syntactic analysis of the grammaticalization; interactions between morphology, phonology and phonetics; and foundational issues about the link between formal grammar and function of language, as well as the methodological issues underlying the different approaches to linguistics.
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 62] 2003. xii, 375 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 4 September 2006
Published online on 4 September 2006
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- Contributors | pp. ix–x
- Acknowledgments | pp. xi–xii
- Introduction: Formalizing FunctionalismAndrew Carnie and Heidi Harley | pp. 1–8
- Part I: The Pronominal Argument Hypothesis
- On the significance of Eloise Jelinek’s Pronominal Argument HypothesisKenneth L. Hale | pp. 11–43
- Categories and pronominal argumentsEmmon Bach | pp. 45–49
- Doubling by Agreement in Slave (Northern Athapaskan)Keren Rice | pp. 51–78
- Quasi objects in St’át’imcets: On the (semi-)independence of Agreement and CaseHenry Davis and Lisa Matthewson | pp. 79–106
- Agreement, dislocation, and partial configurationalityMark C. Baker | pp. 107–132
- Part II: Interfaces
- Multiple multiple questionsMolly Diesing | pp. 135–153
- Attitude evaluation in complex NPsLynn Nichols | pp. 155–164
- Topic-Focus articulation and degrees of salience in the Prague Dependency TreebankPetr Sgall, Eva Hajičová and Eva Buráňová | pp. 165–177
- Word order and discourse genre in Tohono O’odhamColleen M. Fitzgerald | pp. 179–189
- The prosody of interrogative and focus constructions in NavajoJoyce McDonough | pp. 191–206
- Subject number agreement, grammaticalization, and transitivity in the Cupeño verb constructionJane H. Hill | pp. 207–226
- Lexical irregularity in OT: DOT vs. Variable Constraint RankingDiana Archangeli | pp. 227–244
- Rapid perceptibility as a factor underlying universals of vowel inventoriesNatasha Warner | pp. 245–261
- Part III: Foundational issues
- Argument hierarchies and the mapping principleEloise Jelinek and Andrew Carnie | pp. 265–296
- Focus movement and the nature of uninterpretable featuresSimin Karimi | pp. 297–306
- MergeD. Terence Langendoen | pp. 307–318
- Phonotactics and probabilistic rankingMichael Hammond | pp. 319–332
- Deconstructing functionalist explanations of linguistic universalsThomas G. Bever | pp. 333–351
- Name index | pp. 369–370
- Subject index | pp. 371–375
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