Sound and Grammar : A Neo-Sapirian Theory of Language

Sound And Grammar: A Neo-sapirian Theory Of Language By Susan F. Schmerling Offers An Original Overall Linguistic Theory Based On The Work Of The Early American Linguist Edward Sapir, Supplemented With Ideas From The Philosopher-logicians Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz And Richard Montague And The Linguist Elisabeth Selkirk. The Theory Yields An Improved Understanding Of Interactions Among Different Aspects Of Linguistic Structure, Resolving Notorious Issues Directly Inherited By Current Theory From (post- ) Bloomfieldian Linguistics. In The Theory Presented Here, Syntax Is A Filter On A Phonological Algebra, Not A Linguistic Level; Linguistic Expressions Are Phonological Structures, And Syntax Is Semantically Relevant Relations Among Phonological Structures. The Book Shows How Neo-sapirian Grammar Sheds New Light On Syntax-phonology Interactions In English, German, French, And Spanish. By Susan F. Schmerling. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 167-174) And Index. Series Page 3 Title Page 4 Copyright 5 Dedication 6 Epigraph 7 Contents 8 Acknowledgements 10 Prologue 11 1 Introduction 22 2 The Neo-Sapirian Model 36 3 An NSG-Based Theory of Syntax 48 4 The NSG Theory Applied to the Syntax (and Semantics) of English Imperatives 57 5 A Case Study: NP-Internal Structure in German 72 6 An NSG Study of English Finite Clauses 97 7 French (and Spanish) Preposition- Article Portmanteaus as Phonologically Conditioned Phrase-Level Allomorphy 135 8 Aligning Syntactic Constituents and Phonological Phrases in English 151 Epilogue 168 Appendix A: Categorematic and Syncategorematic Expressions in Simple Categorial Grammars 172 Appendix B: Examples Belonging to Different English Clause Types 176 References 188 Index 196