Mismatch - Form-Function Incongruity and the Architecture of Grammar

Linguistic mismatch phenomena involve semiotic functions that attach to forms in defiance of grammatical design features. Noun phrases, when used as predicates, provide one example: how do predicate nominals correspond to our theories of what nouns mean? How do such phenomena challenge traditional conceptions of grammar? How do competing theories of the syntax-semantics interface stand up when confronted with mismatch phenomena? "Mismatch" addresses these questions through the efforts of some of the most original thinkers in syntactic and semantic theory, exploring a wide variety of mismatch phenomena in a broad sampling of languages.

About the author

Elaine J. Francis is assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of Hong Kong. Laura A. Michaelis is associate professor in the Department of Linguistics and a faculty fellow in the Institute of Cognitive Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Product details

• Authors: Elaine J. (EDT)/ Michaelis Francis
• Assisted by: CSLI Publications (Editor), Elaine J. Francis (Editor), Laura A. Michaelis (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.2004
• EAN: 9781575863849
• ISBN: 978-1-57586-384-9
• No. of pages: 300
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Lecture Notes
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics