Language Description Informed by Theory

Editors

Rob Pensalfini

| The University of Queensland

Myfany Turpin

| The University of Queensland

Diana Guillemin

| Griffith University

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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

https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.147

Table of Contents

Map of Australian languages refferred to in this book | p. vii

List of contributors | pp. xi–xii

Editors’ introduction

Rob Pensalfini, Diana Guillemin and Myfany Turpin | pp. 1–14

Bibliography of Mary Laughren

Myfany Turpin and Diana Guillemin | pp. 15–24

Evaluating the Bilingual Education Program in Warlpiri schools

Samantha Disbray | pp. 25–46

Part 1. Phonology

Phonological aspects of Arandic baby talk

Myfany Turpin, Katherine Demuth and April Ngampart Campbell | pp. 49–80

Prestopping of nasals and laterals is only partly parallel

Erich Round | pp. 81–96

Part 2. Morphology

Liminal pronoun systems: Evidence from Garrwa

Ilana Mushin | pp. 99–122

Verbs as spatial deixis markers in Jingulu

Rob Pensalfini | pp. 123–152

The reconstruction of inflectional classes in morphology: History, method and Pama-Nyungan (Australian) verbs

Harold Koch | pp. 153–190

Part 3. Syntax

Marking Definiteness or Specificity, not necessarily both: Evidence of a principle of economy from Mauritian Creole

Diana Guillemin | pp. 193–216

Theory and experiment in parametric minimalism: The case of Romance negation

Giuseppe Longobardi | pp. 217–262

Serial verbs in Wambaya

Rachel Nordlinger | pp. 263–282

Nominals as adjuncts or arguments: Further evidence from language mixing

Felicity Meakins | pp. 283–316

Part 4. Semantics

The case of the invisible postman: The current status of the French future tense

Lynn Wales | pp. 319–336

Manner and result: A view from clean

Beth Levin and Malka Rappaport Hovav | pp. 337–358

Part 5. Anthropological Linguistics

Shifting relations: Structure and agency in the language of Bininj Gunwok kinship

Murray Garde | pp. 361–382

Language index | pp. 383–384

Subject index | pp. 385–392

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Linguistics

Anthropological Linguistics

Language documentation

Theoretical linguistics

BIC Subject: CFK – Grammar, syntax

BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

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