Alexis Manaster-Ramer

List of John Benjamins publications in which Alexis Manaster-Ramer is involved.

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Mathematics of Language: Proceedings of a conference held at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, October 1984

Edited by Alexis Manaster-Ramer

By mathematics of language is meant the mathematical properties that may, under certain assumptions about modeling, be attributed to human languages and related symbolic systems, as well as the increasingly active and autonomous scholarly discipline that studies such things. More specifically, the… read more

[Not in series, 35] 1987. ix, 401 pp.

Manaster-Ramer, Alexis 1999 Some uses and abuses of mathematics in linguistics Issues in Mathematical Linguistics: Workshop on Mathematical Linguistics, State College, PA, April 1998, Martín-Vide, Carlos (ed.), pp. 73–130 | Article

Manaster-Ramer, Alexis, Peter A. Michalove, Karen S. Baertsch and Karen L. Adams 1998 Exploring the Nostratic Hypothesis Nostratic: Sifting the Evidence, Salmons, Joseph C. and Brian D. Joseph (eds.), pp. 61–84 | Article

Baxter, William H. and Alexis Manaster-Ramer 1996 Review of Ringe (1992): On Calculating the Factor of Chance in Language Comparison Diachronica 13:2, pp. 371–384 | Review

Manaster-Ramer, Alexis 1994 From Pitta-Pitta to Proto-Indo-European Diachronica 11:1, pp. 141–146 | Miscellaneous

Manaster-Ramer, Alexis 1994 Clusters or Affricates in Kartvelian and Nostratic? Diachronica 11:2, pp. 157–170 | Article

SUMMARY Among the weakest points of Illic-Svityd's reconstruction of Nostratic is the complex system of affricates, which in Indo-European are supposed to yield *st, *sk, *skw, and *sky clusters. In what is one of the few substantive critiques of the Nostratic hypothesis, Doerfer (1973) took the… read more

Manaster-Ramer, Alexis 1993 Blood, tears, and murder: the evidence for Proto-Uto-Aztecan syllable-final consonants Historical Linguistics 1991: Papers from the 10th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Amsterdam, August 12–16, 1991, Marle, Jaap van (ed.), pp. 199–210 | Article

Manaster-Ramer, Alexis 1993 On Illič-Svityč's Nostratic Theory Studies in Language 17:1, pp. 205–250 | Review

Manaster-Ramer, Alexis 1992 The Korean Precursors of Generative Phonology The Joy of Grammar: A festschrift in honor of James D. McCawley, Brentari, Diane, Gary N. Larson and Lynn A. MacLeod (eds.), pp. 213–224 | Article

Manaster-Ramer, Alexis 1992 On Anecdotal Universals in Historical Linguistics Diachronica 9:1, pp. 135–137 | Miscellaneous

Manaster-Ramer, Alexis 1988 The Phoneme in Generative Phonology and in Phonological Change Diachronica 5:1/2, pp. 109–139 | Article

SUMMARY Generative phonology comes out of phonemic and morphonemic theory, except that it gives up the phonemic level. Since the early 1970s, a number of attempts have been made to bring the phoneme back. One of the earliest and strongest was that of Schane (1971). His claim was that features which… read more

Manaster-Ramer, Alexis 1987 Introduction Mathematics of Language: Proceedings of a conference held at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, October 1984, Manaster-Ramer, Alexis (ed.), pp. ix–x | Miscellaneous

Rounds, William C., Alexis Manaster-Ramer and Joyce Friedman 1987 Finding Natural Languages a Home in Formal Language Theory Mathematics of Language: Proceedings of a conference held at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, October 1984, Manaster-Ramer, Alexis (ed.), pp. 349–360 | Article