Dependencies in language : : On the causal ontology of linguistic systems / / N. J. Enfield.

• VerfasserIn: Enfield, N. J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin : : Language Science Press,, 2017.; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (215 pages)

Dependency is a fundamental concept in the analysis of linguistic systems. The many if-then statements offered in typology and grammar-writing imply a causally real notion of dependency that is central to the claim being made--usually with reference to widely varying timescales and types of processes. But despite the importance of the concept of dependency in our work, its nature is seldom defined or made explicit. This book brings together experts on language, representing descriptive linguistics, language typology, functional/cognitive linguistics, cognitive science, research on gesture and other semiotic systems, developmental psychology, psycholinguistics, and linguistic anthropology to address the following question: What kinds of dependencies exist among language-related systems, and how do we define and explain them in natural, causal terms?

Table of Contents

1. Dependencies in language / N. J. Enfield 2. Implicational universals and dependencies / Sonia Cristofaro 3. New approaches to Greenbergian word order dependencies / Jennifer Culbertson 4. From biology to language change and diversity / Dan Dediu 5. Language intertwined across multiple timescales: processing, acquisition and evolution / Morten H. Christiansen 6. What comes first in language emergence? / Wendy Sandler 7. Is language development dependent on early communicative development? / Elena Lieven 8. Dependency and relative determination in language acquisition: the case of Ku Waru / Alan Rumsey 9. Beyond binary dependencies in language structure / Damián E. Blasi & Seán G. Roberts 10. Real and spurious correlations involving tonal languages / Jeremy Collins 11. What (else) depends on phonology? / Larry H. Hyman 12. Dependencies in phonology: hierarchies and variation / Keren Rice 13. Understanding intra-system dependencies: classifiers in Lao / Sebastian Fedden & Greville G. Corbett 14. Structural and semantic dependencies in word class / William A. Foley 15. On the margins of language: ideophones, interjections and dependencies in linguistic theory / Mark Dingemanse.