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Features
Perspectives on a Key Notion in Linguistics
Anna Kibort and Greville G. Corbett
352 pages
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234x156mm
978-0-19-957774-3
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Hardback
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19 August 2010
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- Offers new perspectives on basic elements of linguistic analysis
- Subject is of interest to all linguists
- Important for both theoretical and empirical research
- Written by prominent, international scholars
This book presents a critical overview of current work on linguistic features and establishes new bases for their use in the study and understanding of language.
Features are fundamental components of linguistic description: they include gender (feminine, masculine, neuter); number (singular, plural, dual); person (1st, 2nd, 3rd); tense (present, past, future); and case (nominative, accusative, genitive, ergative). Despite their ubiquity and centrality in linguistic description, much remains to be discovered about them: there is, for example, no readily available inventory showing which features are found in which of the world's languages; there is
no consensus about how they operate across different components of language; and there is no certainty about how they interact. This book seeks at once to highlight and to tackle these problems. It brings together perspectives from phonology to formal syntax and semantics, expounding the use of linguistic features in typology, computer applications, and logic. Linguists representing different standpoints spell out clearly the assumptions they bring to different kinds of feature and describe how they use them. Their contrasting contributions highlight the areas of difference and the common ground between their perspectives.
The book brings together original work by leading international scholars. It will appeal to linguists of all theoretical
persuasions.Readership: Linguists of all theoretical persuasions - including syntacticians, morphologists, computational linguists, and typologists - and their postgraduate students.
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Anna Kibort, University of Cambridge, and Greville G. Corbett, University of Surrey Contributors:
Anna Kibort, University of Cambridge
Greville G. Corbett, University of Surrey
David Adger, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London
Ann Copestake, University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory
Gabi Danon, Bar-Ilan University
B. Elan Dresher, University of Toronto
Dan Flickinger, Stanfordr University
Keith Plaster, Harvard University
Maria Polinsky, Harvard University
Gergana Popova, Goldsmith College, University of
London
Geoffrey K. Pullum, University of Edinburgh
Ivan A. Sag, Stanford University
Hans-Jörg Tiede, Illinois Wesleyan University
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1: Anna Kibort and Greville G. Corbett: Introduction
Part 1: Key Notions
2: Greville G. Corbett: Features: essential notions
3: B. Elan Dresher: Feature hierarchies and contrast in phonology
4: Anna Kibort: Towards a typology of grammatical features
Part II: Perspectives From Syntactic Description and Theory
5: Keith Plaster and Maria Polinsky: Features in categorization, or a new look at an old problem
6: Gabi Danon: The definiteness feature at the syntax-semantics interface
7: Gergana Popova: Features in periphrastic constructions
8: David Adger: A Minimalist theory of feature structure
Part III: Formal Perspectives
9: Ann Copestake and Dan Flickinger: Features and computational semantics
10: Ivan A. Sag: Feature geometry and predictions of locality
11: Geoffrey K. Pullum and Hans-Jörg Tiede: Inessential features and expressive power of descriptive metalanguages
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