Deconstructing SYNtax
- There are at least two distinct ways of conceiving of syntax: the set of rules that enable speakers and listeners to combine the meaning of expressions (compositional syntax), or the set of formal constraints on the combinations of expressions (formal syntax). The question that occupies us in this paper is whether all languages include a significant formal syntax component or whether there are languages in which most syntactic rules are exclusively compositional. Our claims are (1) that Oneida (Northern Iroquoian) has almost no formal syntax component and is very close to a language that includes only a compositional syntax component and (2) that the little formal syntax Oneida has does not require making reference to syntactic features.
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| Author: | Jean-Pierre KoenigORCiDGND, Karin MichelsonORCiD |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-723506 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.21248/hpsg.2014.7 |
| ISSN: | 1535-1793 |
| Parent Title (English): | Proceedings of the ... International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) |
| Publisher: | CSLI Publications |
| Place of publication: | Stanford, CA |
| Document Type: | Conference Proceeding |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2014/10/13 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2014 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Contributing Corporation: | International Conference on Head Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (21 : 2014 : Buffalo, NY) |
| Release Date: | 2024/09/11 |
| GND Keyword: | Oneida-Sprache; Beschränkung <Linguistik>; Formale Syntax |
| Volume: | 21.2014 |
| Page Number: | 21 |
| First Page: | 114 |
| Last Page: | 134 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache |
| 4 Sprache / 41 Linguistik / 410 Linguistik | |
| Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
| Linguistik-Klassifikation: | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Syntax |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - CC BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |
