The Case for Lexicase

Starosta describes the formal properties of lexicase theory and its historical and metatheoretical relations to other current grammatical frameworks. He argues that it is preferable to other grammatical frameworks, as it is constrained enough to have empirical content, simple enough to be tested and applied to enough languages to have a plausible claim to universality. Examples are drawn from English and various Asian, Pacific, Australian, and African languages.>

List of contents

Foreword Richard Hudson
Preface and Acknowledgements
1 Formal Properties of Lexicase Theory
2 Pan-Lexicalism
3 Formalization
4 Roles and Relations
5 Case Forms and Case Making
6 Constructions and Classes
7 Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Stanley Starosta was Professor of Linguistics at the University of Hawaii.

Product details

• Authors: Stanley Starosta, Stanley (University of Hawaii Starosta, Starosta Stanley
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.12.2015
• EAN: 9781474246729
• ISBN: 978-1-4742-4672-9
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Linguistics: Bloomsbury Academic Collections; Linguistics: Bloomsbury Academic Collections; Linguistics: Bloomsbury Academ; Bloomsbury 3PL
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics