Description: Modularity in Language : Constructional And Categorial Mismatch in Syntax And Semantics, Hardcover by Yuasa, Etsuyo, ISBN 3110183099, ISBN-13 9783110183092, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US In contrast to mainstream theories of generative grammar that treat exceptions and idiosyncrasies of language as peripheral to the goals of syntactic theories, Yuasa (East Asian languages and literatures, Ohio State U.) focuses on exceptions and idiosyncrasies in various types of complex clause in Japanese and English and argues that such cases are evidence for a multi-modular view of the architecture of grammar. Examining coordinate structures with subordinate properties, subordinate structures with coordinate properties, subordinate structures with independent clause properties, and subordination markers with properties of both nouns and subordinating conjunctions, she argues that the associations of syntactic representations with semantic representations in mismatch cases are arbitrary and that they participate in their own semantic and syntax systems, thus providing evidence for the autonomy of different levels of grammar. She further argues that these mismatch cases are the result of a general tendency in language to utilize existing resources as much as possible (intra-grammar redundancy). Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()
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Book Title: Modularity in Language : Constructional And Categorial Mismatch i
Number of Pages: 219 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Modularity in Language : Constructional and Categorial Mismatch in Syntax and Semantics
Publisher: DE Gruyter, Inc.
Subject: Linguistics / Syntax, Authorship, Linguistics / Semantics, General, Linguistics / Historical & Comparative, Japanese, Linguistics / General
Publication Year: 2005
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 15.5 Oz
Item Length: 9.1 in
Author: Etsuyo Yuasa
Subject Area: Foreign Language Study, Language Arts & Disciplines
Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [Tilsm] Ser.
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Hardcover
