Stephen R. Anderson
List of John Benjamins publications in which Stephen R. Anderson is involved.
2021 Chapter 18. A short history of phonology in America: Plus c’est la même chose, plus ça change All Things Morphology: Its independence and its interfaces, Moradi, Sedigheh, Marcia Haag, Janie Rees-Miller and Andrija Petrovic (eds.), pp. 327–348 | Chapter
Although awareness of a difference between the study of the sound patterns of particular languages and the study of the language-independent capacity of humans to produce and perceive sound existed in European and American thought in the early years of the twentieth century, a clear enunciation… read more
2019 The first biolinguist? A forgotten (and forgettable) episode in thought about the evolution of human language Historiographia Linguistica 46:3, pp. 57–72 | Article
In 1930s Germany, Georg Schwidetzky (1875–1952) produced several works attempting to derive modern human languages by reconstruction from the vocalizations of non-human primates. This work was suppressed by other biologists under the Third Reich, not just because both the biology and the… read more
2013 The marker of the English “Group Genitive” is a special clitic, not an inflection Morphosyntactic Categories and the Expression of Possession, Börjars, Kersti, David Denison and Alan K. Scott (eds.), pp. 193–218 | Article
The English possessive construction (and its relatives in related languages), which is the focus of the present volume, has been of interest for some time – at least since the work of traditional grammarians like Jespersen (1942). Several distinct analyses have become more or less standard in… read more
2004 Towards a less 'syntactic' morphology and a more 'morphological' syntax Linguistics Today – Facing a Greater Challenge, Sterkenburg, Piet van (ed.), pp. 31–46 | Article
1999 A Formalist's Reading of Some Functionalist Work in Syntax Functionalism and Formalism in Linguistics: Volume I: General papers, Darnell, Michael, Edith A. Moravcsik, Michael Noonan, Frederick J. Newmeyer and Kathleen Wheatley (eds.), pp. 111–136 | Article
1980 Problems and Perspectives in the Description of Vowel Harmony Issues in Vowel Harmony: Proceedings of the CUNY Linguistics Conference on Vowel Harmony, May 14, 1977, Vago, Robert M. (ed.), pp. 1–48 | Article