Author(s): James P. Blevins (Editor), Juliette Blevins
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Publication Date: 30 July 2009
Edition: Illustrated
Language: English
Print length: 294 pages
ISBN-10: 0199547548
ISBN-13: 9780199547548
Book Description
In this book, leading researchers in morphology, syntax, language acquisition, psycholinguistics, and computational linguistics address central questions about the form and acquisition of analogy in grammar. What kinds of patterns do speakers select as the basis for analogical extension? What types of items are particularly susceptible or resistant to analogical pressures? At what levels do analogical processes operate and how do processes interact? What formal mechanisms are appropriate for modelling analogy? The novel synthesis of typological, theoretical, computational, and developmental paradigms in this volume brings us closer to answering these questions than ever before.
Editorial Reviews
Review
a very enlightening and useful collection of pertinent linguistic work in the field, and the editors have done a wonderful job in bringing together many high-quality, insightful papers on the subject. ― Sabine Arndt-Lappe, Linguistische Berichte
Book Description
Provides the most comprehensive discussion of analogical modelling for linguistic systems
About the Author
James P. Blevins is Assistant Director of Research at the Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics in the University of Cambridge. He received his Ph.D in Linguistics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1990, and has taught at The University of Western Australia, The University of Texas, The University of Alberta, and The University of California, Berkeley. His research deals mainly with the description and analysis of morphological systems and syntactic constructions, with a particular emphasis on paradigm structure and discontinuous dependencies. Areal interests include Germanic, Balto-Finnic, Balto-Slavic and Kartvelian.
Juliette Blevins is a Senior Scientist in the Department of Linguistics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig. She received her doctorate in Linguistics from MIT in 1985, and then joined the Department of Linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research interests range from historical, descriptive, and typological studies, to theoretical analysis with a synthesis in her recent book Evolutionary Phonology (Cambridge University Press). Other interests include Oceanic languages, Australian Aboriginal languages, and Native American languages.
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