Lenition and Fortition Contributor(s): Brandão de Carvalho, Joaquim (Editor), Scheer, Tobias (Editor), Ségéral, Philippe (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3110206080 ISBN-13: 9783110206081 Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton OUR PRICE: $285.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2008 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Medical | Surgery - General - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - Phonetics & Phonology - Language Arts & Disciplines | Grammar & Punctuation |
Dewey: 617.55 |
LCCN: 2008037491 |
Series: Studies in Generative Grammar [Sgg] |
Physical Information: 1.5" H x 6" W x 9" (2.34 lbs) 605 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: The book is a collection of articles which aims at providing an overall treatment of the question of Lenition/Fortition in its many aspects: historical, typological, synchronic, diachronic, empirical and theoretical. Various current approaches to phonology are represented. The first part of the book is intended to provide stable and, if possible, pre-theoretical criteria that allow to characterize phenomena which count as Lenition/Fortition, and to work out the properties of the phenomena under study. The second part of the book deals with Lenition in selected language families. The third and final part provides formal accounts of Lenition/Fortition. |