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Published as a tribute to Gerald Sanders, this collection of papers presents topics in sound and discourse, including coverage of typological issues, syntactic issues, discourse issues and phonological issues.

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Author:   Mushira Eid (University of Utah) ,  Gregory Iverson (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   98
Weight:   0.650kg
ISBN:  

9789027235992

ISBN 10:   9027235996
Pages:   382
Publication Date:   25 March 1993
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Acknowledgement; 2. Introduction; 3. A tribute to Gerald Sanders (by Wirth, Jessica); 4. I. Typological issues; 5. The second persons is rightly so called (by Greenberg, Joseph H.); 6. The structure of category systems (by Schwartz, Linda); 7. On the natural domain of linguistic universals (by Eckman, Fred); 8. II. Syntactic issues; 9. Why is syntax complicated? (by Moravcsik, Edith A.); 10. What is categorical grammar really good for? (by Kac, Michael B.); 11. The logic of relative adjectives (by Hutchinson, Larry G.); 12. On the subject-predicate structure of pseudoclefts (by Hedberg, Nancy); 13. Neagtion and predicate heads (by Eid, Mushira); 14. Iconicity: motivations in Chinese grammar (by Tai, James H-Y.); 15. Hypothesizing case frame information for new verbs (by Dahl, Deborah A.); 16. Local ambiguity and natural language processing (by Rindflesch, Thomas C.); 17. III. Discourse issues; 18. Constructing a courtroom narrative (by Barry, Anita K.); 19. Saying it with a smile (by Sheldon, Amy); 20. Vera Hayden's Dilemma, or the Indirection in direct speech (by Yule, George); 21. Anaphora in GErman discourse (by Delisle, Helga H.); 22. Gender assignment in Oromo (by Clamons, Cynthia R.); 23. IV. Phonological issues; 24. Underspecification and phonological disorders (by Dinnsen, Daniel A.); 25. Rule ordering in Child phonology (by Stemberger, Joseph P.); 26. Default features in contour tones: Evidence from Krahm/Wobe (by Bing, Janet); 27. Lexical versus postlexical rule application in Catalan (by Iverson, Gregory); 28. Variation in phonological assimilation of Irish Loanwords (by Stenson, Nancy J.); 29. Dialect variation in Sorbian reflexes of the Common Slavic jers (by Schaarschmidt, Gunter H.); 30. Subject index; 31. Language index

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