The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Interfaces

This state-of-the-art guide to some of the most exciting work in current linguistics explores how the core components of the language faculty interact. It examines how these interactions are reflected in linguistic and cognitive theory, considers what they reveal about the operations of language within the mind, and looks at their reflections in expression and communication. Leading international scholars present cutting-edge accounts of developments in the interfaces between phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. All scholars and advanced students of language will value this book, whether they are in linguistics, cognitive science, philosophy, artificial intelligence, computational science, or informatics.

Gillian Ramchand was born in Scotland, and grew up in Britain and the Caribbean. After receiving her PhD in Linguistics from Stanford University, she worked as Lecturer in General Linguistics at Oxford University for ten years, and is now Professor of Linguistics at University of Tromsø. She is interested in issues at the syntax-semantics interface, especially in the areas of aspect and argument structure, and has worked on both the Bengali and Scottish Gaelic languages.
; Charles Reiss is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Concordia University in Montréal. He is interested in phonology, language acquisition, cognitive science and historical linguistics. His 1995 Harvard PhD dissertation A Theory of Assimilation, with special reference to Old Icelandic Phonology combined insights from all these domains, and he continues to publish journal articles and book chapters in this interdisciplinary vein.

1: Gillian Ramchand and Charles Reiss: Introduction
Part I Sound
2: James Scobbie: Interface and Overlap in Phonetics and Phonology
3: Charles Reiss: Modularity in the SOund Domain
4: Mark Hale and Madelyn Kissock: The Phonetics-Phonology Interface and the Acquisition of Perseverant Underspecification
5: Orhan Orgun and Andrew Dolbey: Phonology-Morphology Interaction in a COnstraint-based Framework
6: Gorka Elordieta: Segmental Phonology and Syntactic Structure
Part II Structure
7: Sara Rosen: Structured Events, Structured Discourse
8: Marit Julien: On the Relation Between Morphology and Syntax
9: Peter Svenious: 1...3-2
10: David Embick and Ralf Noyer: Distributed Morphology and the Syntax/Morphology Interface
11: Peter Ackema and Ad Neeleman: Morphology does not equal Syntax
12: Edwin Williams: Dumping Lexicalism
13: Thomas Stewart and Gregory Stump: Paradigm Function Morphology and the Morphology-Syntax
Part III Meaning
14: James Higginbotham: Some Consequences of Compositionality
15: Daniel Büring: Semantics, Intonation and Information Structure
16: Christopher Potts: Conventional Implicatures: A Distinguished Class of Meanings
17: David Beaver and Henk Zeevat: Accommodation
Part IV Architecture
18: Cedric Boeckx and Juan Uriagereka: Minimalism
19: Mark Steedman: The Computation
20: Jonas Kuhn: Constraint Based Grammar
The Authors
Language Index
Subject and Name Index