Language Description Informed by Theory
This volume explores how linguistic theories inform the ways in which languages are described. Theories, as representations of linguistic categories, guide the field linguist to look for various phenomena without presupposing their necessary existence and provide the tools to account for various sets of data across different languages. A goal of linguistic description is to represent the full range of language structures for any given language. The chapters in this book cover various sub-disciplines of linguistics including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, language acquisition, and anthropological linguistics, drawing upon theoretical approaches such as prosodic Phonology, Enhancement theory, Distributed Morphology, Minimalist syntax, Lexical Functional Grammar, and Kinship theory. The languages described in this book include Australian languages (Pama-Nyungan and non-Pama-Nyungan), Romance languages as well as English. This volume will be of interest to researchers in both descriptive and theoretical linguistics.
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 147] 2014. xii, 391 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 9 January 2014
Published online on 9 January 2014
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Map of Australian languages refferred to in this book | pp. vii–7
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List of contributors | pp. xi–xii
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Editors’ introductionRob Pensalfini, Diana Guillemin and Myfany Turpin | pp. 1–14
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Bibliography of Mary LaughrenMyfany Turpin and Diana Guillemin | pp. 15–24
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Evaluating the Bilingual Education Program in Warlpiri schoolsSamantha Disbray | pp. 25–46
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Part 1. Phonology
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Phonological aspects of Arandic baby talkMyfany Turpin, Katherine Demuth and April Ngampart Campbell | pp. 49–80
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Prestopping of nasals and laterals is only partly parallelErich Round | pp. 81–96
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Part 2. Morphology
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Liminal pronoun systems: Evidence from GarrwaIlana Mushin | pp. 99–122
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Verbs as spatial deixis markers in JinguluRob Pensalfini | pp. 123–152
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The reconstruction of inflectional classes in morphology: History, method and Pama-Nyungan (Australian) verbsHarold Koch | pp. 153–190
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Part 3. Syntax
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Marking Definiteness or Specificity, not necessarily both: Evidence of a principle of economy from Mauritian CreoleDiana Guillemin | pp. 193–216
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Theory and experiment in parametric minimalism: The case of Romance negationGiuseppe Longobardi | pp. 217–262
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Serial verbs in WambayaRachel Nordlinger | pp. 263–282
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Nominals as adjuncts or arguments: Further evidence from language mixingFelicity Meakins | pp. 283–316
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Part 4. Semantics
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The case of the invisible postman: The current status of the French future tenseLynn Wales | pp. 319–336
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Manner and result: A view from cleanBeth Levin and Malka Rappaport Hovav | pp. 337–358
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Part 5. Anthropological Linguistics
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Shifting relations: Structure and agency in the language of Bininj Gunwok kinshipMurray Garde | pp. 361–382
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Language index | pp. 383–384
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Subject index | pp. 385–391
Cited by (2)
Cited by two other publications
Zeijlstra, Hedde
2023. Pas de Problème: The Distribution and Nature of Double Negation in French and Other Romance Negative Concord Languages. Languages 8:2 ► pp. 118 ff. 
Round, Erich, Rikker Dockum & Robin J. Ryder
2022. Evolution and Trade-Off Dynamics of Functional Load. Entropy 24:4 ► pp. 507 ff.
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CFK: Grammar, syntax
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General