Exploring Interfaces
Exploring Interfaces
José Camacho, Rutgers University, New Jersey
Models of theoretical linguistics now emphasize the meeting points, or interfaces, between different aspects of our language capacity. Syntactic operations include structure-building, checking long-distance relationships between units, and connecting alternative word orders. This volume presents a collection of original studies that explore the mapping between these operations and other language-related areas such as word meanings, discourse contexts, the construction of meaning for larger units, and the alternative expressions of word order. It differs from previous traditional research on interfaces by bringing together studies and analyses from a range of languages, using monolingual varieties that include second language phenomena. Case studies of different types of interfaces, as well as studies based on lesser known sets of linguistic data, provide important examples that propose a new view of the connections between syntactic processes and other areas of grammar.
- Presents linguistic interface through the lenses of different methodologies, different fields of study, and a variety of linguistic data
- Includes studies on linearization, syntax-semantics and syntax-lexicon
- Crosses the traditional boundaries of 'theoretical' analyses based on monolingual varieties to include second language phenomena
Product details
June 2022Paperback
9781108458115
318 pages
227 × 151 × 17 mm
0.47kg
11 b/w illus. 22 tables
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Table of Contents
- Introduction: the road to interfaces Mónica Cabrera and José Camacho
- Part I. Syntax-Lexicon Interface:
- 1. The L2 acquisition of English anticausative structures by L1 Spanish speakers Mónica Cabrera
- 2. Dispositional evaluative adjectives: lexical alternations, behaviors and sideward movement Violeta Demonte
- 3. The role of P in unaccusative constructions Roberto Mayoral Hernández
- 4. Degree achievements of color Mythili Menon and Roumyana Pancheva
- Part II. Syntax-Semantics Interface:
- 5. Negative idioms José Camacho
- 6. Scope, syntax and prosody in Russian as a second or heritage language Tania Ionin and Tatiana Luchkina
- 7. On the syntax of pronominal clitics: a view from Greek Patricia Schneider-Zioga
- Part III. Linearization:
- 8. Merge, restructuring and clitic climbing in Spanish Pascual José Masullo
- 9. Linearization when multiple orderings are possible: adjective ordering restrictions and focus Katy McKinney-Bock
- 10. Dialectal variation in VOS word order in Spanish Liliana Sánchez and Pablo Zdrojewski.
