Linguistic Theory and Empirical Evidence

Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-90-272-1574-1
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Buch, Englisch, Band 64, 299 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 710 g

Reihe: Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics

This volume further elaborates the empirical tradition of Columbia School (CS) Linguistics by offering diverse empirical analyses for a wide variety of languages. These studies open a much needed debate advocating the necessity of the independent validation of linguistic hypotheses. This research exemplifies how such a validation should be conducted by determining which forms underlie the analyses and extracting those observations that are considered to be objective. The volume consists of two parts: a section on synchronic and diachronic grammatical problems and a section on Phonology as Human Behavior (PHB), the Columbia School version of phonology, applied to evolutionary, developmental and clinical issues and the phonotactics of the selected lexicon of a literary text. It provides a wealth of useful empirical data and in-depth and sophisticated qualitative and quantitative analyses of a broad range of languages from diverse families: French, Spanish, Afrikaans, Dutch, English, Polish, Russian, Japanese, and Hebrew.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jonge, Bob de

Tobin, Yishai

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Theoretische Linguistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Linguistic theory and empirical evidence
Bob de Jonge

1–14
Part 1. Independent evidence in grammar

The distribution of linguistic forms and textual structure: Two sign-oriented approaches to the textual analysis of the use of the French Indicative and Subjunctive
Igor Dreer

17–44
Semantic regularities of the so-called irregular Internal Vowel Alternation (IVA) Nominal (umlaut) and Verbal (ablaut) forms in Old and Modern English
Elena Even-Simkin and Yishai Tobin

45–82
Al hablar, se alterna hablando: Syntactic variation between two non-finite Spanish constructions
Bob de Jonge

83–96
Instructional meanings, iconicity, and l’arbitraire du signe in the analysis of the Afrikaans demonstratives
Robert S. Kirsner

97–138
Focus system of the Japanese benefactive auxiliaries kureru and morau
Hidemi Sugi Riggs

139–166
Part 2. Phonology as human behavior

Phonology as human behavior from an evolutionary point of view
Yishai Tobin

169–196
Phonology as human behavior: The prosody of normal and pathological speech of Buenos Aires Spanish
Claudia Enbe and Yishai Tobin

197–218
Phonology as human behavior: ‘Non-Vocalization’ – A phonological error process in the speech of severely and profoundly hearing impaired adults – from the point of view of the theory of phonology as human behavior
Orly Halpern and Yishai Tobin

219–244
Phonology as human behavior: Comparing and contrasting phonological processes in adult dysarthria and first language acquisition
Monika Polczynska and Yishai Tobin

245–266
A phonological analysis of the lexicon of a literary work
Inessa Roe-Portiansky and Yishai Tobin

267–292
Name index

293–294
Subject index

295–300