The First Glot International State-Of-The-Article Book: The Latest in Linguistics

by Cheng, Lisa; Sybesma, Rint

• ISBN13: 9783110169539
• ISBN10: 3110169533
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-09-01
• Publisher: Walter De Gruyter Inc

Summary

The Glot International State-of-the-Article books constitute the ideal solution for everyone who wants to have a good idea of what the others are doing but does not have time to follow the developments in all other parts of the field on a day to day basis. All articles were previously published in Glot International and have been revised and updated, and special attention was given to the extensive bibliography, which constitutes an important part of each overview article.Among the essays in the first volume are overview articles dealing with VP ellipsis (by Kyle Johnson), Ergativity (by Alana Johns), tone (by San Duanmu), acquisition of phonology (by Paula Fikkert), and semantic change (by Elizabeth Closs Traugott).The second volume offers articles on subjects ranging from the development of grammars (by David Lightfoot) and markedness in phonology (by Keren Rice) to the syntactic representation of linguistic events (by Sara Thomas Rosen), optionality in Optimality syntax (by Gereon Müller) and the nature of coordination (by Ljiljana Progovac).

Table of Contents

Preface
The function of Functional Categories	p. 1
Control in GB and Minimalism	p. 27
Ergavity: A perspective on recent work	p. 47
When verb phrases go missing	p. 75
Topic and focus	p. 105
Recent research on the acquisition of L2 competence: Morphosyntax and argument structure	p. 131
Model Theoretic Syntax	p. 171
The rise of Optimality Theory	p. 199
Acquisition of phonology	p. 221
Tone: an overview	p. 251
The phonology-morphology interface	p. 287
Metrical Phonology	p. 307
Generative metrics	p. 329
One phonology or two? Sign language and phonological theory	p. 349
Semantic change: An overview	p. 385
Affiliations and addresses	p. 407
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