An exploration of two important phenomena in natural language - recursion and embedding - that looks in particular at the cognitive skills we must possess in order to manipulate language. Integrating cross disciplinary methodologies, it will be of importance to scholars and advanced students of syntax, cognitive linguistics, and language typology.
Recursion and self-embedding are at the heart of our ability to formulate our thoughts, articulate our imagination and share with other human beings. Nonetheless, controversy exists over the extent to which recursion is shared across all domains of syntax. A collection of 18 studies are presented here on the central linguistic property of recursion, examining a range of constructions in over a dozen languages representing great areal, typological and genetic diversity and spanning wide latitudes. The volume expands the topic to include prepositional phrases, possessives, adjectives, and relative clauses - our many vehicles to express creative thought - to provide a critical perspective on claims about how recursion connects to broader aspects of the mind. Parallel explorations across language families, literate and non-literate societies, children and adults are investigated and constitutes a new step in the generative tradition by simultaneously focusing on formal theory, acquisition and experimentation, and ecologically-sensitive fieldwork, and initiates a new community where these diverse experts collaborate.
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'In the light of recent claims according to which syntactic recursion is the defining property of natural language, this volume offers an excellent collection of contributions dealing with the issue of how to detect and define recursion across syntactic domains and different languages. Since many chapters provide a comparison between languages that have been in the focus of recent debates on recursion and indigenous languages of Brazil, the book is a 'must read' for linguists interested in the issue of recursion from a typological perspective.' Andreas Trotzke, Universität Konstanz, Germany
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Explores two important phenomena in natural language - recursion and embedding - integrating current linguistic theory, cross-linguistic fieldwork, and specific acquisition and experimental techniques.
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| Foreword |
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| Introduction: A Map of the Theoretical and Empirical Issues |
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Part I Speech Reports, Theory of Mind, and Evidentials |
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1 False Speech Reports in Piraha: A Comprehension Experiment |
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2 Indirect Recursion: The Importance of Second-Order Embedding and Its Implications for Cross-Linguistic Research |
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3 Recursion in Language and the Development of Higher-Order Cognitive Functions: An Investigation with Children Acquiring Brazilian Portuguese |
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4 Embedding as a Building Block of Evidential Categories in Kotiria |
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5 Embedded Imperatives in Mbya |
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Part II Recursion along the Clausal Spine |
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6 Word Order in Control: Evidence for Self-Embedding in Piraha |
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7 Switch-Reference Is Licensed by Both Kinds of Coordination: Novel Kisedje Data |
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8 Clausal Recursion, Predicate-Raising, and Head-Finality in Tenetehara |
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9 Recursion in Tupi-Guarani Languages: The Cases of Tupinamba and Guarani |
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Part III Recursive Possession and Relative Clauses 10 Recursive Possessives in Child Japanese |
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11 Recursion of Possessives and Locative Phrases in Kawaiwete |
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12 Relative Clauses in Wapichana and the Interpretation of Multiple-Embedded "uraz" Constructions |
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13 Multiple Embedding of Relative Clauses in Karitiana |
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Part IV Recursion in the PP Domain |
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14 Recursion in the Acquisition Path for Hierarchical Syntactic Structure |
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15 Self-Embedded Recursive Postpositional Phrases in Piraha: A Pilot Study |
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16 Strong Continuity and Children's Development of DP Recursion |
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17 Prosody and Recursion in Kuikuro: DPs versus PPs |
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18 The Processing of PP Embedding and Coordination in Karaja and in Portuguese |
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Luiz Amaral is Associate Professor of Hispanic Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His research focuses on second language acquisition, bilingual development, language revitalization and native languages of Brazil and Mexico. He was the coordinator of the projects on Pedagogical Grammars for Indigenous Languages in Brazil (Museu do Indio/UNESCO) and Pedagogical Grammars for Otomanguean Languages in Mexico (INALI/Juan de Cordoba Library). He is currently the co-director of the Language Acquisition Research Center at University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Marcus Maia is Professor of Linguistics at the Departmente of Linguistics, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. He has published extensively on relative clauses, interrogative, evidentiality, focus and topic constructions in Brazilian Portuguese and Karajį. Andrew Nevins is Professor of Linguistics at University College London and Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He has written and published multiple books and articles including Morphotactics (2012), Locality in Vowel Harmony (2010) and Inflectional Identity (2008), and actively works on new methods of studying underdocumented languages. Tom Roeper is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He works primarily in theoretical approaches to language acquisition and morphology. He is co-author of Diagnostic Evaluation of Language Variation (2003), co-editor of the journal Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics, and one of the founding editors of Language Acquisition.
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