Mismatch: Form-Function Incongruity and the Architecture of Grammar Volume 163 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781575863849)

Linguistic mismatch phenomena involve semiotic functions that attach to forms in defiance of grammatical design features. Noun phrases, when used as predicates, provide one example: how do predicate nominals correspond to our theories of what nouns mean? How do such phenomena challenge traditional conceptions of grammar? How do competing theories of the syntax-semantics interface stand up when confronted with mismatch phenomena? Mismatch addresses these questions through the efforts of some of the most original thinkers in syntactic and semantic theory, exploring a wide variety of mismatch phenomena in a broad sampling of languages.

Author: Elaine J. Francis
ISBN-10: 1575863847
ISBN-13: 9781575863849
Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Informat
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2002
Pages: 300
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.20h x 5.88w x 0.97d