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Anti-Contiguity: A Theory of Wh- Prosody - Couverture souple

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Kandybowicz, Jason

 
9780197509746: Anti-Contiguity: A Theory of Wh- Prosody
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ISBN 10 : 0197509746 ISBN 13 : 9780197509746
Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 2020

Synopsis

A recent wave of research has explored the link between wh- syntax and prosody, breaking with the traditional generative conception of a unidirectional syntax-phonology relationship. In this book, Jason Kandybowicz develops Anti-contiguity Theory as a compelling alternative to Richards' Contiguity Theory to explain the interaction between the distribution of interrogative expressions and the prosodic system of a language. Through original and highly detailed fieldwork on several under-studied West African languages (Krachi, Bono, Wasa, Asante Twi, and Nupe), Kandybowicz presents empirically and theoretically rich analyses bearing directly on a number of important theories of the syntax-prosody interface. His observations and analyses stem from original fieldwork on all five languages and represent some of the first prosodic descriptions of the languages. The book also considers data from thirteen additional typologically diverse languages to demonstrate the theory's reach and extendibility.

Against the backdrop of data from eighteen languages, Anti-contiguity offers a new lens on the empirical and theoretical study of wh- prosody.

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À propos de l'auteur

Jason Kandybowicz is Associate Professor of Linguistics at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. He specializes in the syntax of West African languages and has published extensively on a variety of topics in formal syntax, field linguistics, and the syntax-phonology interface. He is the author of The Grammar of Repetition: Nupe Grammar at the Syntax-Phonology Interface (2008) and co-editor of Africa's Endangered Languages: Documentary and Theoretical Approaches (OUP 2017).

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Éditeur
Oxford University Press Inc
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0197509746
ISBN 13 
9780197509746
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
176
Coordonnées du fabricant
Oxford University Press
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