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Title Identity relations in grammar / edited by Kuniya Nasukawa, Henk van Riemsdijk
Published Boston ; Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, [2014]
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Description 1 online resource (x, 371 pages) : illustrations
Series Studies in generative grammar ; 119
Studies in generative grammar ; 119.
Contents Introduction / Kuniya Nasukawa and Henk van Riemsdijk -- Part I. Phonology -- Contrastiveness: The basis of identity avoidance / Kuniya Nasukawa and Phillip Backley -- Rhyme as phonological multidominance / Marc van Oostendorp -- Babbling, intrinsic input and the statistics of identical transvocalic consonants in English monosyllables: Echoes of the Big Bang? / Patrik Bye -- Identity avoidance in the onset / Toyomi Takahashi -- Part II. Morpho-Syntax -- Unifying minimality and the OCP: Local anti-identity as economy / M. Rita Manzini -- Semantic versus syntactic agreement in anaphora: The role of identity avoidance / Peter Ackema -- Part III. Syntax -- Exploring the limitations of identity effects in syntax / Artemis Alexiadou -- Constraining Doubling / Ken Hiraiwa -- Recoverability of deletion / Kyle Johnson -- On the loss of identity and emergence of order: Symmetry breaking in linguistic theory / Wei-wen Roger Liao -- Part IV. General -- Linguistic and non-linguistic identity effects: Same or different? / Moira Yip -- On the biological origins of linguistic identity / Bridget Samuels
Summary The act of identifying is central to most cognitive processes, and the structure of human language is determined in many different ways by considerations of identity and its opposite. The purpose of this book is to bring together research from a broad scale of domains of grammar that have a bearing on the role that identity plays in the structure of grammatical representations and principles
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Subject Grammar, Comparative and general -- Grammatical categories.
Identity (Philosophical concept)
Generative grammar.
identity.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Syntax.
Generative grammar
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Grammatical categories
Identity (Philosophical concept)
Grammatik
Identität
Phonologie
Form Electronic book
Author Nasukawa, Kuniya, 1967- editor.
Riemsdijk, Henk C. van, editor
ISBN 9781614518129
1614518122