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Contemporary Linguistic Parameters

By Michael Putnam , Antonio Fabregas , Jaume Mateu

Book information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2015
ISBN
1472533933, 9781472533937
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2472468 bytes)
Series
Contemporary Studies in Linguistics
Pages
448\444
Scanned
yes
Time added
2016-05-04 15:22:47
Языки и языкознание;Лингвистика;Актуальные проблем

Description

Parameters have lain at the core of linguistic research in the generative tradition for decades. The theoretical questions they have raised are deep and broad: this reference text investigates how contemporary linguistics has best tried to answer them.This book looks at how parameters might be properly defined and what their locus might be :lexical information, functional heads, the computational system, the phonological branch of the grammar. What kind of data forms trigger acquisition of a parameter? Are parameters necessary or can we study languages without making reference to them?The questions looked at are not just theoretical: how can a theory of parameters be used to help understand second language acquisition, and what contributions can it make to the study of language typology? This is the right time to gather all this information, dispersed in many different kinds of publications by single authors and groups, into one comprehensive volume.

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