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Del 19 - Language Faculty and Beyond
Null Objects from a Cross-Linguistic and Developmental Perspective
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
1 524 kr
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The volume Null Objects from a Cross-Linguistic and Developmental Perspective brings together theoretical and empirical contributions on missing object constructions, revealing a nuanced and multifaceted phenomenon that poses challenges to current theories of null objects. The selected papers highlight the significance of the interplay between formal constraints and semantic properties (namely definiteness and animacy) in the licensing of null objects cross-linguistically. The formally oriented papers contribute to ongoing discussions on the mechanisms underlying the derivation of null objects. The differences between null objects that are licensed by rich agreement and those that are agreement independent are also addressed. From a developmental perspective, the papers on null objects in language acquisition, including second language learning, further provide valuable insights into the intricate processes underlying the acquisition of referential expressions. The role of animacy emerges as a central question, particularly in the context of Portuguese varieties, where differences in pronominal systems contribute to variation in null object distribution.
Del 20 - Language Faculty and Beyond
Ziggurat of Grammar
In honor of Ur Shlonsky
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
1 769 kr
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What is the extent to which various grammatical levels – from features through subjecthood through cleft layers – reuse and reemploy certain structure-building operations? In this volume, organized in terms of successively expanding domains, leading contributors report research into the complex edifice of grammatical structure of human language that one might liken to the terraced layers of a ziggurat. Following the heuristics of reverse-engineering, the chapters in this collection draw on theoretical and experimental analyses from Taqbaylit Berber to the sign language Cena, from the Romance language family to the Semitic family, in a kind to ‘reverse-architecture’ effort to understand the modes that compose multiple planes of morphosyntax. The volume, presented to honor the work and influence of Ur Shlonsky within linguistics, is aimed at a readership accessible to advanced undergraduates as well as specialists placed at distinct vantage points.
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Del 21 - Language Faculty and Beyond
New Arabic Lexicon and its Words
Root-based and templatic morphosyntax
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
1 697 kr
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Root syntax, with roots as primitive lexical units, is an influential theme in building the lexicon in linguistic theory, typically in Distributed Morphology, and the generative model of minimal computation. Implementing important fragments of the Arabic lexicon, the book presents a comprehensive view of word formation and argument structure, providing robust evidence that favors root-based, rather than stem-based derivations of words. Tested on Arabic, a language wearing DM ‘on its sleeve’, the DM model gains substantial support and refinement. Significant templatic affixes turn out to be roots. Valency changing causatives, anti-causatives, reflexives, or nominalizations implicate root complexity, not category change. Psych, perception, and cognition eventuality classes are born as root subtypes, not ‘verb’ classes. Category changing deverbalizations, deadjectivations, or denominalizations are supplemented by complex root derivations. Melodic templates operate ‘templatization’ (e.g. with adjectives), or act as functional templates for Voice and Aspect (e.g. with passives), or gradation (with synthetic comparatives), after category typing. The book is of interest to generative and comparative linguists, cognitivists, typologists, lexicographers, and students, teachers, and researchers of Arabic, or Semitic