Sound and grammar / Susan Schmerling.

Sound and Grammar: A Neo-Sapirian Theory of Language by Susan F. Schmerling offers an original overall linguistic theory based on the work of the early American linguist Edward Sapir, supplemented with ideas from the philosopher-logicians Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz and Richard Montague and the linguist E...

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Superior document:Empirical approaches to linguistic theory ; Volume 12
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Place / Publishing House:Boston, MA : : Brill,, 2018.
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory 12.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xix, 179 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The Neo-Sapirian Model
  • An nsg-Based Theory of Syntax
  • The nsg Theory Applied to the Syntax (and Semantics) of English Imperatives
  • A Case Study: NP-Internal Structure in German
  • An nsg Study of English Finite Clauses
  • French (and Spanish) Preposition-Article Portmanteaus as Phonologically Conditioned Phrase-Level Allomorphy
  • Aligning Syntactic Constituents and Phonological Phrases in English
  • Epilogue.