Perspectives on Element Theory

Element Theory (ET) covers a range of approaches that consider privativity a central tenet defining the internal structure of segments. This volume provides an overview and extension of this program, exploring new lines of research within phonology and at its interface (phonetics and syntax). The present collection reflects on issues concerning the definition of privative primes, their interactions, organization, and the operations that constrain phonological and syntactic representations. The contributions reassess theoretical questions, which have been implicitly taken for granted, regarding privativity and its corollaries. On the empirical side, it explores the possibilities ET offers to analyze specific languages and phonological phenomena.

About the author

Sabrina Bendjaballah, Ali Tifrit, Laurence Voeltzel, Laboratoire de Linguistique de Nantes, France.

Report

"All in all, PET succeeds in providing a picture of several new dimensions along which
ET is being developed." Edoardo Cavirani in: Phonology 2022.

Product details

• Assisted by: Sabrina Bendjaballah (Editor), Ali Tifrit (Editor), Laurence Voeltzel (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.05.2023
• EAN: 9783111262017
• ISBN: 978-3-11-126201-7
• No. of pages: 280
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 17 mm x 230 mm
• Weight: 432 g
• Illustrations: 39 b/w ill., 5 b/w tbl.
• Series: Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG]; ISSN; Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG], 143
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics