The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Interfaces

Edited by Gillian Ramchand and Charles Reiss

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A show-case of cutting-edge work in linguistics
Written by the leading international scholars
State-of-the-art guide for cross-disciplinary work on language

The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Interfaces

Edited by Gillian Ramchand and Charles Reiss

Description

This state-of-the-art guide to some of the most exciting work in current linguistics explores how the core components of the language faculty interact. It examines how these interactions are reflected in linguistic and cognitive theory, considers what they reveal about the operations of language within the mind, and looks at their reflections in expression and communication. Leading international scholars present cutting-edge accounts of developments in the interfaces between phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. They bring to bear a rich variety of methods and theoretical perspectives, focus on a broad array of issues and problems, and illustrate their arguments from a wide range of the world's languages.

After the editors' introduction to its structure, scope, and content, the book is divided into four parts. The first, Sound, is concerned with the interfaces between phonetics and phonology, phonology and morphology, and phonology and syntax. Part II, Structure, considers the interactions of syntax with morphology, semantics, and the lexicon, and explores the status of the word and its representional status in the mind. Part III, Meaning, revisits the syntax-semantics interface from the perspective of compositionality, and looks at issues concerned with intonation, discourse, and context. The authors in the final part of the book, General Architectural Concerns, examine work on Universal Grammar, the overall model of language, and linguistic and associated theories of language and cognition.

All scholars and advanced students of language will value this book, whether they are in linguistics, cognitive science, philosophy, artificial intelligence, computational science, or informatics.

The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Interfaces

Edited by Gillian Ramchand and Charles Reiss

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1. Introduction, Gillian Ramchand and Charles Reiss
Part I Sound
2. Interface and Overlap in Phonetics and Phonology, James Scobbie
3. Modularity in the SOund Domain, Charles Reiss
4. The Phonetics-Phonology Interface and the Acquisition of Perseverant Underspecification, Mark Hale and Madelyn Kissock
5. Phonology-Morphology Interaction in a COnstraint-based Framework, Orhan Orgun and Andrew Dolbey
6. Segmental Phonology and Syntactic Structure, Gorka Elordieta
Part II Structure
7. Structured Events, Structured Discourse, Sara Rosen
8. On the Relation Between Morphology and Syntax, Marit Julien
9. 1...3-2, Peter Svenious
10. Distributed Morphology and the Syntax/Morphology Interface, David Embick and Ralf Noyer
11. Morphology does not equal Syntax, Peter Ackema and Ad Neeleman
12. Dumping Lexicalism, Edwin Williams
13. Paradigm Function Morphology and the Morphology-Syntax, Thomas Stewart and Gregory Stump
Part III Meaning
14. Some Consequences of Compositionality, James Higginbotham
15. Semantics, Intonation and Information Structure, Daniel Büring
16. Conventional Implicatures: A Distinguished Class of Meanings, Christopher Potts
17. Accommodation, David Beaver and Henk Zeevat
Part IV Architecture
18. Minimalism, Cedric Boeckx and Juan Uriagereka
19. The Computation, Mark Steedman
20. Constraint Based Grammar, Jonas Kuhn
The Authors
Language Index
Subject and Name Index

The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Interfaces

Edited by Gillian Ramchand and Charles Reiss

Oxford Handbooks

Author Information

Gillian Ramchand was born in Scotland, and grew up in Britain and the Caribbean. After receiving her PhD in Linguistics from Stanford University, she worked as Lecturer in General Linguistics at Oxford University for ten years, and is now Professor of Linguistics at University of Tromsø. She is interested in issues at the syntax-semantics interface, especially in the areas of aspect and argument structure, and has worked on both the Bengali and Scottish Gaelic languages.

Charles Reiss is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Concordia University in Montréal. He is interested in phonology, language acquisition, cognitive science and historical linguistics. His 1995 Harvard PhD dissertation A Theory of Assimilation, with special reference to Old Icelandic Phonology combined insights from all these domains, and he continues to publish journal articles and book chapters in this interdisciplinary vein.

Contributors:

Gillian Ramchand, University of Tromsø
Charles Reiss, Concordia University
Peter Ackema, University of Edinburgh
David Beaver, Stanford University
Daniel Büring, University of California
Cedric Boeckx, Harvard University
Andrew Dolbey, UC Berkeley
Gorka Elordieta, University of the Basque Country
David Embick, University of Pennsylvania
Mark Hale, Concordia University
James Higginbotham, University of Southern California
Madelyn Kissock, Oakland University
Marit Julien, Lund University
Jonas Kuhn, Saarbrücken
Ad Neeleman, University College London
Ralf Noyer, University of Pennsylvania
Orhan Orgun, UC Davis
Christopher Potts, University of Massachusetts
Sara Thomas Rosen, University of Kansas
James M. Scobbie, Queen Margaret University College
Mark Steedman, University of Edinburgh
Thomas Stewart, Truman State University
Gregory Stump, Ohio State University
Peter Svenonius, Univresity of Tromsø
Juan Uriagereka,
Edwin Williams, Princeton University
Henk Zeevat, University of Amsterdam