Canonical Forms in Prosodic Morphology by Laura J Downing
This book considers the interaction of morphological and phonological determinants of linguistic form and the degree to which one determines the other. It considers the operation of canonical forms, the invariant syllabic shapes of morphemes and the defining characteristic of prosodic morphology. Dr Downing presents an original theory which she tests on data from a wide variety of languages. Her book will be of central interest to scholars and advanced students of phonology and morphology, and of linguistic theory more generally.-
The Logic of Conventional Implicatures
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Definiteness in Balkan Romance
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Nominalization
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The Left Edge Ban and the Architecture of the Grammar
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Causation in Grammatical Structures
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Count and Mass Across Languages
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The Grammar of Copulas Across Languages
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Encoding Events
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The Grammar of the Utterance
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Parts of a Whole
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Pragmatic Aspects of Scalar Modifiers
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Telicity, Change, and State
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Modals and Conditionals
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Concealed Questions
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Interfaces in Linguistics
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The Complementizer Phase
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Control and Restructuring
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The Logic of Pronominal Resumption
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Gender and Noun Classification
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Contrast and Representations in Syntax
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The Grammar of Expressivity
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Majority Quantification and Quantity Superlatives
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Quantification, Definiteness, and Nominalization
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Lexical Plurals
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The Syntax of Sentential Stress
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The Verbal Complex in Romance
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Diagnosing Syntax
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Phonetics, Phonology, and Cognition
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External Arguments in Transitivity Alternations
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Adjectives and Adverbs
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Sluicing: Cross-Linguistic Perspectives
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The Morphology and Phonology of Exponence
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Optimality Theoretic Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics
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Continuations and Natural Language
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The Unaccusativity Puzzle
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Strategies of Quantification
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Sentence and Discourse
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The Syntax of Silence
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Genericity
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Modality Across Syntactic Categories
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The Syntax of Roots and the Roots of Syntax
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Ways of Structure Building
An excellent, clearly written and informative work that should be of great interest to any linguist interested in the phonology-morphology interface* Adam Ussishkin, Phonology *
...this book represents an excellent example of three aspects of theoretical innovation...For this reader, the book has readily achieved its stated goal of wanting to engage and inspire readers to do more work in PM that examines and adopts proposals from morphology. * Suzanne Urbanczyk Linguistics *
...this book represents an excellent example of three aspects of theoretical innovation...For this reader, the book has readily achieved its stated goal of wanting to engage and inspire readers to do more work in PM that examines and adopts proposals from morphology. * Suzanne Urbanczyk Linguistics *
Laura J. Downing is a Research Fellow at the Centre for General Linguistics, Typology, and Universals Research (ZAS) in Berlin where her work focuses on theoretical issues in prosodic phonology and morphology. Her interest in morphologically-conditioned phonology is represented in a volume she co-edited on Paradigms in Phonological Theory (Oxford). Her current research project at the ZAS is concerned with the prosodic expression of focus in Southern Bantu languages.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780199286393 |
| ISBN 10 | 0199286396 |
| Title | Canonical Forms in Prosodic Morphology |
| Author | Laura J Downing |
| Series | Oxford Studies In Theoretical Linguistics |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 2006-05-25 |
| Number of pages | 296 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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