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This introduction proposes to investigate mismatches and indeterminacies in languages much more than has hitherto been done. Such seemingly unruly aspects of language(s), it is argued, are interesting since they may help shed light on the internal make-up of grammatical systems. The question of the internal make-up of grammar(s), it is argued, cannot be addressed by the normal modus operandi of linguistic research, which is to find matches (rather than mismatches) between the observable (sound and meaning) interface systems, and to find how the interface representations map unto each other deterministically: It is only in the "lo-fi" aspects of mappings that the internal mechanisms of the overall grammatical architecture may reveal themselves. The introduction also points out that our concern is independent of the various theoretical orientations linguists may choose for their work, since the problem presents itself in all approaches to language research currently available, it seems - if in slightly ...
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400 Sprache410 Linguistik415 Grammatik; components of grammar; functionalism; generative grammar; mismatches; typology
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URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-29807
https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/30065
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Against information structure heads: A relational analysis of German scrambling
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In: Glossa: a journal of general linguistics; Vol 2, No 1 (2017); 1 ; 2397-1835 (2017)
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Deletion in Clausal Ellipsis: Remnants in the Middle Field
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In: University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics (2016)
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