Dependency is a fundamental concept in the analysis of linguistic systems. The many if-then statements offered in typology and grammar-writing imply a causally real notion of dependency that is central to the claim being made—usually with reference to widely varying timescales and types of processes. But despite the importance of the concept of dependency in our work, its nature is seldom defined or made explicit. This book brings together experts on language, representing descriptive linguistics, language typology, functional/cognitive linguistics, cognitive science, research on gesture and other semiotic systems, developmental psychology, psycholinguistics, and linguistic anthropology to address the following question: What kinds of dependencies exist among language-related systems, and how do we define and explain them in natural, causal terms?
Author(s): N. J. Enfield (ed.)
Series: Studies in Diversity Linguistics 14
Publisher: Language Science Press
Year: 2017
Language: English
Commentary: freely available on http://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/96
Pages: 215
Dependencies in language
N. J. Enfield
Chapter 1
Implicational universals and dependencies
Sonia Cristofaro
Chapter 2
New approaches to Greenbergian word order dependencies
Jennifer Culbertson
Chapter 3
From biology to language change and diversity
Dan Dediu
Chapter 4
Language intertwined across multiple timescales
Processing, acquisition and evolution
Morten H. Christiansen
Chapter 5
What comes first in language emergence?
Wendy Sandler
Chapter 6
Is language development dependent on early communicative development?
Elena Lieven
Chapter 7
Dependency and relative determination in language acquisition
The case of Ku Waru
Alan Rumsey
Chapter 8
Beyond binary dependencies in language structure
Damián E. Blasi, Seán G. Roberts
Chapter 9
Real and spurious correlations involving tonal languages
Jeremy Collins
Chapter 10
What (else) depends on phonology?
Larry M. Hyman
Chapter 11
Dependencies in phonology: hierarchies and variation
Keren Rice
Chapter 12
Understanding intra-system dependencies
Sebastian Fedden, Greville G. Corbett
Chapter 13
Structural and semantic dependencies in word class
William A. Foley
Chapter 14
On the margins of language
Ideophones, interjections and dependencies in linguistic theory
Mark Dingemanse
Chapter 15
