Expecting The Unexpected Exceptions In Grammar
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Expecting the Unexpected: Exceptions in Grammar
Every linguistic theory has to come to grips with a fundamental property of human language: the existence of exceptions, i.e. phenomena that do not follow the standard patterns one observes otherwise. The contributions to this volume discuss and exemplify a variety of approaches to exceptionality within different formal and non-formal frameworks. Topics include criteria for exceptionality, the diachronic rise of exceptions, the relevance of different grammatical subsystems and their interaction in the explanation of exceptions, and the crucial characteristics of grammatical models that can accommodate exceptions. A special feature of the book is that the articles are accompanied by peer-commentaries and responses thereupon, thus opening up the papers to further discussion.
Inconsistency in Linguistic Theorising
Author: András Kertész
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 2022-07-07
This book is the first systematic analysis of the emergence of, and the resolution strategies for, inconsistency in linguistic theorizing.
Adjunct Islands in English
Author: Andreas Kehl
language: en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date: 2023-06-19
Island phenomena are a central topic in generative grammar, especially because of principled exceptions to these general extraction constraints. This volume investigates exceptional extractions from phrasal adjunct islands. It argues, based on experimental studies, that several factors identified in the previous literature are uninformative about locality conditions because they show effects in both extraction and non-extraction sentence forms. The volume develops a multifactorial model to account for these effects without appealing to universal extraction conditions and argues that the relative acceptability of the underlying proposition determines acceptability across sentence types.