Identity Relations in Grammar

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2014

Identity Relations in Grammar

Edited by: Kuniya Nasukawa and Henk van Riemsdijk

Volume 119 in the series Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614518112

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Few concepts are as ubiquitous in the physical world of humans as that of identity. Laws of nature crucially involve relations of identity and non-identity, the act of identifying is central to most cognitive processes, and the structure of human language is determined in many different ways by considerations of identity and its opposite. The purpose of this book is to bring together research from a broad scale of domains of grammar that have a bearing on the role that identity plays in the structure of grammatical representations and principles.

Beyond a great many analytical puzzles, the creation and avoidance of identity in grammar raise a lot of fundamental and hard questions. These include:

Why is identity sometimes tolerated or even necessary, while in other contexts it must be avoided?
What are the properties of complex elements that contribute to configurations of identity (XX)?
What structural notions of closeness or distance determine whether an offending XX-relation exists or, inversely, whether two more or less distant elements satisfy some requirement of identity?
Is it possible to generalize over the specific principles that govern (non-)identity in the various components of grammar, or are such comparisons merely metaphorical?
Indeed, can we define the notion of identity in a formal way that will allow us to decide which of the manifold phenomena that we can think of are genuine instances of some identity (avoidance) effect?
If identity avoidance is a manifestation in grammar of some much more encompassing principle, some law of nature, then how is it possible that what does and what does not count as identical in the grammars of different languages seems to be subject to considerable variation?

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Kuniya Nasukawa, Tohoku Gakuin University, Japan; Henk van Riemsdijk, Tilburg University, The Netherlands.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Introduction Kuniya Nasukawa and Henk van Riemsdijk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I Phonology
Contrastiveness: The basis of identity avoidance Kuniya Nasukawa and Phillip Backley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
Rhyme as phonological multidominance Marc van Oostendorp Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
Babbling, intrinsic input and the statistics of identical transvocalic consonants in English monosyllables: Echoes of the Big Bang? Patrik Bye Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
Identity avoidance in the onset Toyomi Takahashi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
Part II Morpho-Syntax
Unifying minimality and the OCP: Local anti-identity as economy M. Rita Manzini Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
Semantic versus syntactic agreement in anaphora: The role of identity avoidance Peter Ackema Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
Part III Syntax
Exploring the limitations of identity effects in syntax Artemis Alexiadou Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
Constraining Doubling Ken Hiraiwa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	225
Recoverability of deletion Kyle Johnson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
On the loss of identity and emergence of order: Symmetry breaking in linguistic theory Wei-wen Roger Liao Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289
Part IV General
Linguistic and non-linguistic identity effects: Same or different? Moira Yip Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	323
On the biological origins of linguistic identity Bridget Samuels Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	341
Language index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	365
Subject index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	367

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Researchers and Advanced Students with an interest in Generative Linguistics; Theoretical Syntacticians; Morphologists
Pages
- Front matter: 10
- Main content: 371
Keywords: Identity Avoidance; Obligatory Contour Principle (OCP); Doubling; Agreement

eBook

Published: October 6, 2014
ISBN: 9781614518112

Hardcover

Published: June 16, 2014
ISBN: 9781614518181