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Title Questioning theoretical primitives in linguistic inquiry : papers in honor of Ricardo Otheguy / edited by Naomi L. Shin, Daniel Erker
Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2018]

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Series Studies in functional and structural linguistics (SFSL), 1385-7916 ; volume 76
Contents First principles in linguistic inquiry / Daniel Erker and Naomi Shin -- Categories of grammar and categories of speech: when the quest for symmetry meets inherent variability / Shana Poplack -- Letter from Ricardo Otheguy to Shana Poplack -- Variable grammars: competence as a statistical abstraction from performance constructing theories from data / Gregory R. Guy -- Discovering structure: person and accessibility / Catherine Travis and Rena Torres Cacoullos -- The justification of grammatical categories / Wallis Reid -- Spooky grammatical effects / Joseph Davis -- Ditransitives and the English system of degree of control: a Columbia School analysis / Nancy Stern -- Latinus and linguistics: complaints, conflicts, and contradictions: the anthro-political linguistics solution / Ana Celia Zentella -- Reviving the unicorn: linguistic reconsiderations for the existence of Spanglish / Rachel Varra -- Bilingual acquisition: difference or incompleteness? / Carmen Silva-Corvalssn -- An incomplete disquisition against "incomplete acquisition": with particular reference to changes in the distribution of the subjunctive in Spanish / Marcel den Dikken
Summary "Across the world, professional linguistic inquiry is in full bloom, largely as result of pioneering thinkers who helped rapidly modernize the study of human language in the last century. As the field continues to move forward, further solidifying its position as a conduit of insight into the human condition, it is essential to take stock of the theoretical primitives that have given linguistics its intellectual foundation. This volume does precisely that, inspecting the load-bearing components of the edifice upon which contemporary linguistics has been constructed"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Otheguy, Ricardo, 1945-
Linguistics.
Linguistics
linguistics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Historical & Comparative.
Linguistics
Form Electronic book
Author Shin, Naomi Lapidus, editor
Erker, Daniel (Daniel Gerard), editor.
Otheguy, Ricardo, 1945- honouree.
LC no. 2018051225
ISBN 9789027263346
9027263345