Relations and Constraints in Phonology -- Chapter Two: Formal Properties of Vowel Coalescence -- Chapter Three: The Representation of Vowels in Ancient Greek -- Chapter Four: Vowel Coalescence and Related Phenomena -- Chapter Five: Vowel Coalescence from a cross-linguistic perspective -- Epilog -- References
Logic to Some Purpose: Theses against the Deductive-Nomological Paradigm in the Science of Logic / Barth
Selected Studies (1976-1996)
Michelle-Janie -- The king incognito or the portrayal of the child in J
pour que Dieu vive": Gertrud Kolmar's Consecration of the Protagonists in the Drama of the French Revolution -- Laws of War and Revolution: Violence in Heiner Müller's Work -- Bibliography -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Index -- Backmatter
Functional Categories in Language Acquisition formatIsbn:Hardcover - 9783484304567 Relations and Constraints in PhonologyThis study investigates the acquisition of Functional Categories (e. g., INFL (AGR, TNS), DET, COMP) from the perspective of self organization in generative grammar. Language is conceived of as a dynamical system which evolves in time and bifurcates when critical thresholds are reached. The emergence of syntax as evidenced by the acquisition of Functional Categories is the major bifurcation in child language acquisition. Target values of syntactic
