商品簡介
Russian-born Trubetzkoy (1890-1938)is acknowledged as founder of the subject, and Scheer (linguistics, U. of Nice, France) picks up where the great linguist left off by distilling various interface theories (roughly since World War II) and laying the foundation for new work. In the introduction Scheer defines objectives and how to use this book and discusses such topics as procedural and representational communication with phonology, functional historiography, the spell-out mechanism(s), and deforestation (i.e. the core of Government Phonology--lateral rather than arboreal syllable structure). Following are chapters comprising the first section, in which he asks and answers questions regarding various interface theories, devoting chapters to American structuralism--juncture phonemes; Chomsky, Halle & Lukoff (1956); and the life of boundaries in post-SPE times, among other topics. The second part is a thematic guide to the first: "...instead of approaching the interface period by period and theory by theory, relevant topics are addressed across periods and theories...{and aims] "to evaluate, to assess and to tell good from bad, correct from incorrect, plausible from implausible...." This work appears to be a ground-breaking synthesis that linguists will rely on for years to come. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Tobias Scheer, University of Nice, France.
