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Uto-Aztecan
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Morphology at the Interfaces
This monograph addresses morphology and its interfaces with phonology and syntax by examining comparative data from the Uto-Aztecan language family, and analyses involving reduplication as well as noun incorporation and related derivational morphology are provided within the framework of Distributed Morphology. Reduplication is treated by analyzing reduplicative morphemes (reduplicants) as morphological pieces (Vocabulary Items) inserted into syntactic slots at Morphological Structure. Noun incorporation constructions are analyzed as involving either incorporation (head movement in syntax, a la Baker 1988), or conflation, involving direct merger of a nominal root into verbal position (a la Hale and Keyser 2002). It is argued that denominal verb constructions should be treated as a sub-case of NI, as in Hale and Keyser (1993). Finally, the historical development of the polysynthesis parameter in Nahuatl is discussed, and a reconstruction of the likely stages of development, each of which is attested elsewhere in the family, is presented.
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Diverse Scenarios of Syntactic Complexity
This volume surveys the phenomenon of syntactic complexity in a diversity of languages and from a diversity of theoretical perspectives. The topics include clause combining strategies such as relative, complement, and adverbial clauses, serialization, clausal nominalizations, but also the switch reference systems involved in clause chains, the role of insubordination and the influence of language contact in the development of syntactic complexity as well as the acquisition of complex clauses in child language and the grammaticalization processes leading to syntactic complexity. These studies illustrate the varied aspects involved in clause combining and help to understand how syntactic complexity works and evolves in the world’s languages, how it varies across languages, how it is influenced by language contact, how it is acquired. As such, this book gives the opportunity for readers to expand both their typological and their theoretical knowledge about syntactic complexity in a variety of languages.
Word-Formation
This handbook comprises an in-depth presentation of the state of the art in word-formation. The five volumes contain 207 articles written by leading international scholars. The XVI chapters of the handbook provide the reader, in both general articles and individual studies, with a wide variety of perspectives: word-formation as a linguistic discipline (history of science, theoretical concepts), units and processes in word-formation, rules and restrictions, semantics and pragmatics, foreign word-formation, language planning and purism, historical word-formation, word-formation in language acquisition and aphasia, word-formation and language use, tools in word-formation research. The final chapter comprises 74 portraits of word-formation in the individual languages of Europe and offers an innovative perspective. These portraits afford the first overview of this kind and will prove useful for future typological research. This handbook will provide an essential reference for both advanced students and researchers in word-formation and related fields within linguistics.
Tono, acentos y estructuras métricas en lenguas mexicanas.
Este libro es fruto del trabajo desarrollado en el seminario PHONOLOGICA; los trabajos que lo componen ofrecen miradas puntuales en torno a tres grandes temas: el acento, el tono y las estructuras métricas. En su conjunto, las lenguas de estudio se articulan en familias lingüísticas: yutoazteca, maya yucateco y otomangue. Entre los temas de estudio, figuran las relaciones entre el tono, los segmentos y las posiciones de prominencia; el acento y sus correlatos fonéticos, sin faltar la reflexión diacrónica, ni la discusión en torno a las etiquetas clasificatorias sobre las propiedades prosódicas. Con este volumen se pretende empezar a llenar un hueco en la descripción y el análisis de los sistemas prosódicos de las lenguas mexicanas, algunas de las cuales, como el ixcateco y el ocuilteco, están en grave peligro de extinción. (Cátedra Jaime Torres Bodet. Estudios de Lingüística, 24)
Historia sociolingüística de México
La riqueza y la complejidad lingüísticas que se dan en el vasto territorio mexicano son de suyo una incitante invitación al análisis y a la historia. Tal es el objetivo final de esta Historia sociolingüística de México: narrar desde varias perspectivas la historia de las lenguas y, en especial, la de los hablantes en México a lo largo de los siglos, tanto en términos de consenso como de conflicto. Múltiples miradas convergen en esta historia en torno a los diversos procesos que han imbricado lenguas y hablantes en el paradójico México pluriétnico. Siguiendo con su objetivo original, en este volumen 4 se busca ampliar el conocimiento de más lenguas y familias lingüísticas que plasman la diversidad de diversidades lingüísticas de nuestro país.
