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A Guide to Morphosyntax-Phonology Interface Theories

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This book reviews the history of the interface between morpho-syntax and phonology roughly since World War II. Structuralist and generative interface thinking is presented chronologically, but...
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  • 14 December 2010
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This book reviews the history of the interface between morpho-syntax and phonology roughly since World War II. Structuralist and generative interface thinking is presented chronologically, but also theory by theory from the point of view of a historically interested observer who however in the last third of the book distills lessons in order to assess present-day interface theories, and to establish a catalogue of properties that a correct interface theory should or must not have. The book also introduces modularity, the rationalist theory of the (human) cognitive system that underlies the generative approach to language, from a Cognitive Science perspective. Modularity is used as a referee for interface theories in the book. Finally, the book locates the interface debate in the landscape of current minimalist syntax and phase theory and fosters intermodular argumentation: how can we use properties of morpho-syntactic theory in order to argue for or against competing theories of phonology (and vice-versa)?

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Price: $410.00
Pages: 900
Publisher: De Gruyter
Imprint: De Gruyter Mouton
Publication Date: 14 December 2010
ISBN: 9783110238624
Format: Hardcover
BISACs: LAN009020 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Morphology, LAN011000 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Phonetics & Phonology
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Tobias Scheer, University of Nice, France.