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Title Interfaces in language / edited by John Partridge
Published Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 334 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color)
Contents Table of contents; acknowledgements; preface; linearity and the syntax-semantics interface; left dislocation and the theme-topic interface; declarative root clauses with 'that'; chickens and eggs; segmental processes; from musical cadences to linguistic prosody; languedocian; the five languages of switzerland; purism in language conflict; genocide and ethnocide; the effect of migration on local identity and sound change; cross-disciplinary insights on regional dialect levelling; 'ni patois, ni français régional'
Use and misuse of linguistic similarities to teach french in medieval triglossic englishmodelling the linguistic mind; contributors
Summary This volume resulted from the first Interfaces in Language conference held at the University of Kent as a result of the need perceived for the orthodox distinctions made between the various perceived divisions in language study, e.g. syntax vs. semantics vs. pragmatics vs. phonology vs. morphology, to be expanded into a wider concept of linguistic interfaces, for example language and music, language and politics, languages in mutual contact, languages in mutual conflict, language and literat ..
Notes Conference proceedings
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
Subject Linguistics -- Congresses
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Historical & Comparative.
Linguistics
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Partridge, John Geoffrey
LC no. 2010551876
ISBN 9781443824330
144382433X
9781443823999
1443823996
128314137X
9781283141376
9786613141378
6613141372