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Order and Structure in Language: Multidimensional Ordering and Language Design

Order and Structure in Language: Multidimensional Ordering and Language Design

Delfitto, Denis

Hardcover

Series: Studies in Generative Grammar [Sgg], Book 156

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PREORDER - Expected ship date October 19, 2026

ISBN10: 3111713253
ISBN13: 9783111713250
Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
Published: Oct 19 2026
Pages: 350
Language: English

The book puts forward a new view of the interaction among linear order, labeling and hierarchy in human language. By referring to theories bearing on this issue, including Kayne's Antisymmetry, Chomsky's Minimalism, Brody's Mirror Theory and Cinque's views on word order generalizations, the volume develops the original insight that hierarchical structure is built from linear order, by defining the relevant Bootstrapping algorithm. It also presents an investigation of some main typological consequences of the theory (in the verbal and nominal domain), original experimental evidence in support of the theory and an extension of the Bootstrapping algorithm to the relation between rhythm and metrical structure in music.

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