Explaining Language Structure Through Systems Interaction

by Erin Shay, Zygmunt Frajzyngier, Erin Shay

This book proposes a framework for describing languages through the description of relationships among lexicon, morphology, syntax, and phonology. The framework is based on the notion of formal coding means; the principle of functional transparency; the notion of functional domains; and the notion of systems interaction in the coding of functional domains. The study is based on original analyses of cross-linguistic data.The fundamental finding of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1588114368
• ISBN13: 9781588114365
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Length: 309 Pages