Interfaces in Linguistics

New Research Perspectives

Edited by Raffaella Folli and Christiane Ulbrich

Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics

Highlights cutting-edge research on linguistics interface issues
Presents both theoretical and experimental analyses of data from a wide range of languages
Includes accessible discussions of research questions
Features contributions from many distinguished and well-known scholars in the field

Interfaces in Linguistics

New Research Perspectives

Edited by Raffaella Folli and Christiane Ulbrich

Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics

Description

This book explores the interaction of grammatical components in a wide variety of languages, and presents and exemplifies new experimental and analytic techniques for studying linguistic interfaces. Speaking a language requires access to the different aspects of its grammar - semantic, syntactic, phonological, pragmatic, morphological, and phonetic. Knowing how these interact is crucial to understanding the operations of any specific language and to the explanation of how language in general operates in the mind. The new research presented here combines theoretical and experimental perspectives on one of the most productive fields in contemporary linguistics.

After the editors' introduction the volume is organized along four themes: the structural properties of sentences interfacing with meaning and the lexicon; internal word structure and its effect on the syntactic and phonological components; the syntax-phonology interface and its relation to the phonetics-phonology interface; and the implications of interfaces for language acquisition and language processing. The book will interest theoretical linguists and all those in linguistics and cognitive science working on the mental operations of language.

Interfaces in Linguistics

New Research Perspectives

Edited by Raffaella Folli and Christiane Ulbrich

Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics

Section I: The Structural Properties of Sentences Interfacing with Meaning and the Lexicon
1:Cycle Interaction of Event Structure and A' Locality, Robert Truswell
2:Determiners and Movement, Kyle Johnson
3:Post-verbal Nominatives: an Unaccusativity Diagnostic Under Scrutiny, Artemis Alexiadou
4:Unaccusativity in Vietnamese and Structural Consequences of Inadvertent Causes, Nigel Duffield
5:Building Resultatives in Icelandic, Matthew Whelpton
6:Categorization and the Interface Levels, Jamal Ouhalla
7:Non-topical Wa-phrases in Japanese, Reiko Vermeulen
Section II: The Morphological Properties of Words Interfacing with Syntax and Phonology
8:Word-internal Modification Without the Syntax-Morphology Interface, Naoko Tomioka
9:Affixation and the Mirror Principle, Heidi Harley
10:Phases and Navajo Verbal Morphology, Lisa Travis
11:The Syntax and Prosody of Turkish "Pre-stressing" Suffixes, Arsalan Kahnemuyipour and Jaklin Kornfilt
Section III: Sound Interfacing with Structure
12:Restrictions on Subject Extraction: A PF Interface Account, Peter Ackema
13:An Experimental Approach to Intervension of Wh-phrases: Prosody and Syntax Interface, Suwon Yoon
14:Acoustic, Articulatory, and Phonological Perspectives on Allophonic Variation of /r/ in Dutch, Jim Scobbie and Koen Sebregts
15:Second Occurrence Focus and the Acoustics of Prominence, Jonathan Howell
16:Loan Adaptation of laryngeal Features, Sang-Cheol Ahn and Juhee Lee
Section IV: Experimental Work on Interface Issues
17:Scope Ambiguity in Child Language: Old And New Problems, Andrea Gualmini
18:Interaction of Syntax and Discourse Pragmatics in Closely Related Languages: How native Swedes, Native Germans, and Swedish-Speaking Learners of German Start Their Sentences, Ute Bohnacker and Christina Rosén
19:Processing (In)alienable Possessions at the Syntax-Semantics Interface, Chien-Jer Charles Lin
20:Picturing the Syntax/Semantics Interface: On-line Interpretation of Pronouns and Relfexives in Picture NPs, Elsi Kaiser, Jeffrey T. Runner, Rachel S. Sussman, and Michael K. Tanenhaus

Interfaces in Linguistics

New Research Perspectives

Edited by Raffaella Folli and Christiane Ulbrich

Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics

Author Information

Edited by Raffaella Folli, Lecturer in Linguistics, School of Communication, University of Ulster, and Christiane Ulbrich, Lecturer in Linguistics, School of Communication, University of Ulster

Contributors:

Rafaella Folli, University of Ulster
Christiane Ulbrich, University of Ulster
Peter Ackema, University of Edinburgh
Sang-Cheol Ahn, Kyung Hee University
Artemis Alexiadou, Stuttgart University
Ute Bohnacker, University of Lund
Nigel Duffield, University of Sheffield
Andrea Gualmini, Utrecht Institute of Linguistics
Heidi Harley, University of Arizona
Jonathan Howell, McGill University
Kyle Johnson, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Arsalan Kahnemuyipour, Syracuse University
Elsi Kaiser, University of Southern California
Jaklin Kornfilt, Syracuse University
Juhee Lee, Kyung Hee University
Chien-Jer Charles Lin, Indiana University
Jamal Ouhalla, University College Dublin
Christina Rosén, Växjö University
Jeffrey T. Runner, University of Rochester
James M. Scobbie, Queen Margaret University
Koen Sebregts, University of Leiden
Rachel Sussman,
Michael K. Tanenhaus, University of Rochester
Naoko Tomioka,
Lisa Travis, McGill University
Robert Truswell, University of Edinburgh
Reiko Vermeulen, University of Ghent
Matthew Whelpton, University of Iceland
Suwon Yoon, University of Chicago