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A recent wave of research has explored the link between wh- syntax and prosody, breaking with the traditional generative conception of a unidirectional syntax-phonology relationship. In this book, Jason Kandybowicz develops Anti-contiguity Theory as a compelling alternative to Richards' Contiguity Theory to explain the interaction between the distribution of interrogative expressions and the prosodic system of a language. Through original and highly
detailed fieldwork on several under-studied West African languages (Krachi, Bono, Wasa, Asante Twi, and Nupe), Kandybowicz presents empirically and theoretically rich analyses bearing directly on a number of important
theories of the syntax-prosody interface. His observations and analyses stem from original fieldwork on all five languages and represent some of the first prosodic descriptions of the languages. The book also considers data from thirteen additional typologically diverse languages to demonstrate the theory's reach and extendibility.Against the backdrop of data from eighteen languages, Anti-contiguity offers a new lens on the empirical and theoretical study of
wh- prosody.
A recent wave of research has explored the link between wh- syntax and prosody, breaking with the traditional generative conception of a unidirectional syntax-phonology relationship. In this book, Jason Kandybowicz develops Anti-contiguity Theory as a compelling alternative to Richards' Contiguity Theory to explain the interaction between the distribution of interrogative expressions and the prosodic system of a language. Through original and highly
detailed fieldwork on several under-studied West African languages (Krachi, Bono, Wasa, Asante Twi, and Nupe), Kandybowicz presents empirically and theoretically rich analyses bearing directly on a number of important
theories of the syntax-prosody interface. His observations and analyses stem from original fieldwork on all five languages and represent some of the first prosodic descriptions of the languages. The book also considers data from thirteen additional typologically diverse languages to demonstrate the theory's reach and extendibility.Against the backdrop of data from eighteen languages, Anti-contiguity offers a new lens on the empirical and theoretical study of
wh- prosody.
List of Abbreviations Used in Non-Cited Data
Acknowledgments
Map of Languages Covered in This Book
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Prosodic Entanglement and the Anti-Contiguity of Wh &
C.
Chapter 3: An Anti-Contiguity Approach to Tano In-Situ
Interrogative Distribution
Chapter 4: An Anti-Contiguity Approach to Nupe Interrogative
Distribution
Chapter 5: Anti-Contiguity Cross-Linguistically
References.
Jason Kandybowicz is Associate Professor of Linguistics at The
Graduate Center, City University of New York. He specializes in the
syntax of West African languages and has published extensively on a
variety of topics in formal syntax, field linguistics, and the
syntax-phonology interface. He is the author of The Grammar of
Repetition: Nupe Grammar at the Syntax-Phonology Interface (2008)
and co-editor of Africa's Endangered Languages:
Documentary and Theoretical Approaches (OUP 2017).
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