Mathematics of Language: Proceedings of a conference held at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, October 1984
Edited by Alexis Manaster-Ramer
[Not in series, 35] 1987. ix, 401 pp.
Alexis Manaster-Ramer
List of John Benjamins publications for which Alexis Manaster-Ramer plays a role.
Title
Subjects Theoretical linguistics
Articles
1999 Some uses and abuses of mathematics in linguistics Issues in Mathematical Linguistics: Workshop on Mathematical Linguistics, State College, PA, April 1998, Martín-Vide, Carlos (ed.), pp. 73 ff. | Article
1998 Exploring the Nostratic Hypothesis Nostratic: Sifting the Evidence, Salmons, Joseph C. and Brian D. Joseph (eds.), pp. 61 ff. | Article
1996 Review of Ringe (1992): On Calculating the Factor of Chance in Language Comparison Diachronica 13:2, pp. 371–384 | Review
1994 From Pitta-Pitta to Proto-Indo-European Diachronica 11:1, pp. 141–146 | Miscellaneous
1994 Clusters or Affricates in Kartvelian and Nostratic? Diachronica 11:2, pp. 157–170 | Article
SUMMARY Among the weakest points of Illic-Svityd's reconstruction of Nostratic is the complex system of affricates, which in Indo-European are supposed to yield *st, *sk, *skw, and *sky clusters. In what is one of the few substantive critiques of the Nostratic hypothesis, Doerfer (1973) took the… read more
1993 On Illič-Svityč's Nostratic Theory Studies in Language 17:1, pp. 205–250 | Review
1992 The Korean Precursors of Generative Phonology The Joy of Grammar: A festschrift in honor of James D. McCawley, Brentari, Diane, Gary N. Larson and Lynn A. MacLeod (eds.), pp. 213 ff. | Article
1992 On Anecdotal Universals in Historical Linguistics Diachronica 9:1, pp. 135–137 | Miscellaneous
1988 The Phoneme in Generative Phonology and in Phonological Change Diachronica 5:1/2, pp. 109–139 | Article
SUMMARY Generative phonology comes out of phonemic and morphonemic theory, except that it gives up the phonemic level. Since the early 1970s, a number of attempts have been made to bring the phoneme back. One of the earliest and strongest was that of Schane (1971). His claim was that features which… read more
1987 Introduction Mathematics of Language: Proceedings of a conference held at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, October 1984, Manaster-Ramer, Alexis (ed.), pp. x ff. | Miscellaneous
1987 Finding Natural Languages a Home in Formal Language Theory Mathematics of Language: Proceedings of a conference held at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, October 1984, Manaster-Ramer, Alexis (ed.), pp. 349 ff. | Article