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This volume presents evidence that asymmetry, as a property of linguistic relations, is salient in grammar. The papers in morphology bring further evidence for the centrality of asymmetry in word-structure. It is shown that asymmetry is part of the internal structure of functional constructs such as determiners and complementizers, as it is the case for lexical constructs. Further evidence is presented for the asymmetry of prefixes in verb structure. A typology of formal objects based on the distinction between maximal and minimal categories is formulated. It is proposed that Formal Complexity drives the change from synthetic to analytic expressions. The papers in phonology point to the fact that asymmetry is part of that linguistic dimension in terms of processes that eliminates symmetric relations, in terms of head-dependency relations, in terms of relative scope of the distinctive features in any inventory, in terms of universal principles in combination with certain language specific choices. Moreover, the papers on acquisition bring to fore experimental data that point to the same direction. The asymmetry of grammatical relations provides the form of the initial state of lang

Who reads Asymmetry In Grammar: Volume 2: Morphology, Phonology, Acquisition (linguistik Aktuell/linguistics Today)?

Author

Anna-Maria Di Sciullo (ed.)

Publisher

John Benjamins Publishing Company

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9781282161443

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Language Learning, Linguistics, Literary Fiction