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9781009014892: When Minoritized Languages Change Linguistic Theory
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ISBN 10: 1009014897 ISBN 13: 9781009014892
Editorial: Cambridge University Press, 2025

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For decades, a small set of major world languages have formed the basis of the vast majority of linguistic theory. However, minoritized languages can also provide fascinating contributions to our understanding of the human language faculty. This pioneering book explores the transformative effect minoritized languages have on mainstream linguistic theory, which, with their typically unusual syntactic, morphological and phonological properties, challenge and question frameworks that were developed largely to account for more widely-studied languages. The chapters address the four main pillars of linguistic theory – syntax, semantics, phonology, and morphology – and provide plenty of case studies to show how minoritized language can disrupt assumptions, and lead to modifications of the theory itself. It is illustrated with examples from a range of languages, and is written in an engaging and accessible style, making it essential reading for both students and researchers of theoretical syntax, phonology and morphology, and language policy and politics.

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Andrew Nevins is Professor of Language Sciences at University College London. He is the author of Locality in Vowel Harmony (2010, MIT Press) and co-author of Morphotactics: The Structure of Spellout and Basque Auxiliaries (2012, Springer).

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Cambridge University Press
Año de publicación
2025
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Inglés
ISBN 10 
1009014897
ISBN 13 
9781009014892
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Número de páginas
212
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