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Yu, Alan C. L.

 
9780199279388: A Natural History of Infixation: 15 (Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics)
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ISBN 10: 0199279381 ISBN 13: 9780199279388
Editorial: OUP Oxford, 2007

Sinopsis

This book presents the first cross-linguistic study of the phenomenon of infixation, typically associated in English with words like "im-bloody-possible", and found in all the world's major linguistic families. Infixation is a central puzzle in prosodic morphology: Professor Yu explores its prosodic, phonological, and morphological characteristics, considers its diverse functions, and formulates a general theory to explain the rules and constraints by which it is governed. He examines 154 infixation patterns from over a hundred languages, including examples from Asia, Europe, Africa, New Guinea, and South America. He compares the formal properties of different kinds of infix, explores the range of diachronic pathways that lead to them, and considers the processes by which they are acquired in first language learning. A central argument of the book concerns the idea that the typological tendencies of language may be traced back to its origins and to the mechanisms of language transmission. The book thus combines the history of infixation with an exploration of the role diachronic and functional factors play in synchronic argumentation: it is an exemplary instance of the holistic approach to linguistic explanation.

Alan Yu's pioneering study will interest phonologists and morphologists of all theoretical persuasions, as well as typologists and historical linguists.

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Alan C. L. Yu is Assistant Professor in Linguistics and the College at the University of Chicago. He received his PhD in 2003 from the University of California, Berkeley and has previously taught at McGill University in Montréal, Canada. His main research interests include theoretical and experimental phonology, the phonetics-phonology interface and the phonology-morphology interface. He has published in Language, Phonology, Journal of East Asian Linguistics, the Linguistic Review, and Natural Language Semantics.




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OUP Oxford
Año de publicación
2007
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Inglés
ISBN 10 
0199279381
ISBN 13 
9780199279388
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ISBN 10:  019927939X ISBN 13:  9780199279395
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