Sound, Syntax and Contact in the Languages of Asturias
Sound, Syntax and Contact in the Languages of Asturias

Author: Guillermo Lorenzo

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Published: 2022-03-01

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 9027257906

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This is the first generative-oriented volume ever published about Asturian and Asturian Galician, two Romance languages which, along with their intrinsic interest, are crucial to understand the parametric distance between Spanish and Galician/Portuguese. Its chapters offer new insights about old puzzles, like pronominal enclisis or apparent violations of bans on clitic combinatorics, but they also deal with less explored grounds, like aspect, negation or prosody. Chapters make special emphasis on how the concerned issues result from complex interactions between syntax proper and its interfaces with sound and meaning. The book focuses on particular aspects of Asturian and Asturian Galician, as well as on some effects of their contact with Spanish in their corresponding locations.

The Cambridge Handbook of Spanish Linguistics
The Cambridge Handbook of Spanish Linguistics

Author: Kimberly L. Geeslin

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-08-23

Total Pages: 1098

ISBN-13: 1316800717

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Written for both researchers and advanced students, this Handbook provides a state-of-the-art survey of the field of Spanish linguistics. Balancing different theoretical perspectives among expert scholars, it provides an in-depth examination of all sub-fields of research in Hispanic linguistics, with a focus on recent advances.

The Grammar of Repetition
The Grammar of Repetition

Author: Jason Kandybowicz

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 187

ISBN-13: 9027255199

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Displacement is a fundamental property of grammar. Typically, when an occurrence moves it is pronounced in only one environment. This was previously viewed as a primitive/irreducible property of grammar. Recent work, however, suggests that it follows from principled interactions between the syntactic and phonological components of grammar. As such, the phonetic character of movement chains can be seen as both a reflection of and probe into the syntax-phonology interface. This volume deals with repetition, an atypical outcome of movement operations in which displaced elements are pronounced multiple times. Although cross-linguistically rare, the phenomenon obtains robustly in Nupe, a Benue-Congo language of Nigeria. Repetition raises a tension of the descriptive-explanatory variety. In order to achieve both measures of adequacy, movement theory must be supplemented with an account of the conditions that drive and constrain multiple pronunciation. This book catalogs these conditions, bringing to light a number of undocumented aspects of Nupe grammar.

The Copy Theory of Movement
The Copy Theory of Movement

Author: Norbert Corver

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2007-06-27

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 9027292302

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This volume brings together papers which address issues regarding the copy theory of movement. According to this theory, a trace is a copy of the moved element that is deleted in the phonological component but is available for interpretation at L(ogical) F(orm). Thus far, the bulk of the research on the copy theory has mainly focused on interpretation issues at LF. The consequences of the copy theory for syntactic computation per se and for the syntax–phonology mapping, in particular, have received much less attention in the literature, despite its crucial relevance for the whole architecture of the model. As a contribution to fill this gap, this volume congregates recent work that deals with empirical and conceptual consequences of the copy theory of movement for the inner working of syntactic computations within the Minimalist Program, with special emphasis on the syntax–phonology mapping.

The Sounds of Spanish with Audio CD
The Sounds of Spanish with Audio CD

Author: José Ignacio Hualde

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2005-10-13

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780521545389

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Accompanying CD contains ... "[all] the sounds described in this book."--Page 4 of cover.

The Cambridge History of the Romance Languages: Volume 2, Contexts
The Cambridge History of the Romance Languages: Volume 2, Contexts

Author: Martin Maiden

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-10-24

Total Pages: 553

ISBN-13: 9780521800730

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What is the origin of the Romance languages and how did they evolve? When and how did they become different from Latin, and from each other? Volume 2 of The Cambridge History of the Romance Languages offers fresh and original reflections on the principal questions and issues in the comparative external histories of the Romance languages. It is organised around the two key themes of influences and institutions, exploring the fundamental influence, of contact with and borrowing from, other languages (including Latin), and the cultural and institutional forces at work in the establishment of standard languages and norms of correctness. A perfect complement to the first volume, it offers an external history of the Romance languages combining data and theory to produce new and revealing perspectives on the shaping of the Romance languages.

Clusivity
Clusivity

Author: Elena Filimonova

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2005-11-30

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 9027293880

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This book presents a collection of papers on clusivity, a newly coined term for the inclusive–exclusive distinction. Clusivity is a widespread feature familiar from descriptive grammars and frequently figuring in typological schemes and diachronic scenarios. However, no comprehensive exploration of it has been available so far. This book is intended to make the first step towards a better understanding of the inclusive–exclusive opposition, by documenting the current linguistic knowledge on the topic. The issues discussed include the categorial and paradigmatic status of the opposition, its geographical distribution, realization in free vs bound pronouns, inclusive imperatives, clusivity in the 2nd person, honorific uses of the distinction, etc. These case studies are complemented by the analysis of the opposition in American Sign Language as opposed to spoken languages. In-depth areal and family surveys of clusivity consider this opposition in Austronesian, Tibeto-Burman, central-western South American, Turkic languages, and in Mosetenan and Shuswap.

Vowel Patterns in Language
Vowel Patterns in Language

Author: Rachel Walker

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2011-04-28

Total Pages: 367

ISBN-13: 113950018X

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Linguists researching the sounds of languages do not just study lists of sounds but seek to discover generalizations about sound patterns by grouping them into categories. They study the common properties of each category and identify what distinguishes one category from another. Vowel patterns, for instance, are analysed and compared across languages to identify phonological similarities and differences. This account of vowel patterns in language brings a wealth of cross-linguistic material to the study of vowel systems and offers theoretical insights. Informed by research in speech perception and production, it addresses the fundamental question of how the relative prominence of word position influences vowel processes and distributions. The book combines a cross-linguistic focus with detailed case studies. Descriptions and analyses are provided for vowel patterns in over 25 languages from around the world, with particular emphasis on minor Romance languages and on the diachronic development of the German umlaut.