By Julia Schlüter
ISBN-10: 3110186071
ISBN-13: 9783110186079
This groundbreaking ebook highlights a phonological choice, the main of Rhythmic Alternation, as an element in grammatical version and alter in English from the early smooth interval to the current. although usually missed in past examine, the phonetically influenced avoidance of adjoining stresses is proven to exert a power on a wide selection of phenomena in morphology and syntax. in accordance with in-depth analyses of intensive digital databases, the booklet provides 20 exemplary stories from various structural different types. between them are much-debated in addition to novel matters, together with the double comparative worser, 'predicative in basic terms' a- adjectives, variation prior participles, the location of the measure modifier relatively, the order of conjuncts in binomials, the negation of attributive adjectives and sentence adverbs, variable adverbial marking, the use or omission of the infinitive marker, and the a- prefix ahead of - ing types. The reviews offer qualitative and quantitative proof of the significance of rhythmic alternation in synchronic version in addition to diachronic switch, with no neglecting interactions with a suite of competing useful developments. hence, the publication contributes crucial facets to the outline and rationalization of the phenomena thought of, calling for a primary revision of present pondering the interface among phonology and morphosyntax. moreover, the empirical findings are delivered to undergo on theoretical discussions of extra basic curiosity, yielding a severe overview of the advantages and boundaries of 2 nonmodular linguistic theories: Optimality thought and spreading activation versions. The latter style is constructed right into a complete perception integrating practical elements similar to the primary of Rhythmic Alternation in an overarching framework for language edition and alter. the wide variety of topic components coated makes the quantity crucial examining and a resource of concept for linguists with pursuits as diversified because the phonology-morphosyntax interface, English grammar, the heritage of English, useful linguistics, Optimality thought, in addition to neuro- and psycholinguistics.
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Fijn van Draat 1912a: 40--47) when they precede nouns. Similarly, despite the overall tendency of English to evolve into an analytic language (cf. Markus 1988: 108), synthetic comparatives are well preserved in attributive uses due to their rhythmic advantage (cf. the oldest man vs. the most old mim; cf. Franz 1911: 209; 1986: 209-210; Stroheker 1913: 39, 47; Bihl 1916: 146, 149150; Rohr 1929: 26-27; Bo1inger 1965b: 153-154; 1981: 31; 1986a: 54). g. bet vs. bett(e)re, leng vs. lenger, less vs. lesser) alternated in earlier centuries, depending on the rhythmic environment (cf.
G. 1965b, 1978, 1980a, 1981, 1986a) can be considered as continuations and refinements of this longstanding tradition. While some of these authors' suggestions have been taken up and subjected to closer scrutiny in the empirical part of this work, for most of the examples reported here quantitative tests are still at a premium. A further caveat refers to Stroheker and Bihl, who concentrate on language in the form of verse, but both imply throughout that the same means of achieving rhythmic alternation are exploited in the language in general.
Consequently, the duration of a phrase is more or less proportionate to the number of syllables it contains. Languages of the second type distinguished by Pike, including English, German, Polish, Russian and Arabic, are known as stress-timed languages. Their basic timing units Outline 25 are feet, so that the intervals between stresses are approximately equidistant, independently of the number of intervening unstressed syllables. That means that the duration of syllables is compensatorily adjusted: sequences of unstressed syllables are crushed together, while stressed syllables that are not flanked by unstressed ones are drawn out (cf.
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