Expecting the Unexpected: Exceptions in Grammar

Heike Wiese

ISBN 10: 3110219085 / ISBN 13: 9783110219081

Published by De Gruyter Mouton, De Gruyter Mouton Mär 2011, 2011

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This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Every linguistic theory has to come to grips with a fundamental property of human language: the existence of exceptions, i.e. phenomena that do not follow the standard patterns one observes otherwise. The contributions to this volume discuss and exemplify a variety of approaches to exceptionality within different formal and non-formal frameworks. Topics include criteria for exceptionality, the diachronic rise of exceptions, the relevance of different grammatical subsystems and their interaction in the explanation of exceptions, and the crucial characteristics of grammatical models that can accommodate exceptions. A special feature of the book is that the articles are accompanied by peer-commentaries and responses thereupon, thus opening up the papers to further discussion. 460 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Expecting the Unexpected: Exceptions in Grammar
• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton, De Gruyter Mouton Mär 2011
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3110219085
• ISBN 13: 9783110219081
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 236W x 160H x 30D millimeters 236 millimeters width by 160 millimeters height by 30 millimeters depth
• Weight: 834 grams

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Synopsis

Every linguistic theory has to come to grips with a fundamental property of human language: the existence of exceptions, i.e. phenomena that do not follow the standard patterns one observes otherwise. The contributions to this volume discuss and exemplify a variety of approaches to exceptionality within different formal and non-formal frameworks.

Topics include criteria for exceptionality, the diachronic rise of exceptions, the relevance of different grammatical subsystems and their interaction in the explanation of exceptions, and the crucial characteristics of grammatical models that can accommodate exceptions. A special feature of the book is that the articles are accompanied by peer-commentaries and responses thereupon, thus opening up the papers to further discussion.

About the Author

Horst J. Simon, King's College London, UK; Heike Wiese, University of Potsdam, Germany.