1: Edith Moravscik: Introduction
PART I: Competition in syntax: Grammatical relations and word
order
2: Andrej Malchukov: Resolving alignment conflicts: A competing
motivations approach
3: Monique J. A. Lamers and Helen de Hoop: Animate object fronting
in Dutch: A production study
4: John A. Hawkins: Patterns in competing motivations and the
interaction of principles
5: Elaine J. Francis and Laura A. Michaelis: Why move? How weight
and discourse factors combine to predict relative clause
extraposition in English
6: Jan Strunk: A statistical model of competing motivations
affecting relative clause extraposition in German
7: Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky and Matthias Schlesewsky: Competition
in argument interpretation: Evidence from the neurobiology of
language
8: Caroline F. Rowland, Claire Noble, and Angel Chan: Competition
all the way down: How children learn word order cues to sentence
structure
9: Mary E. Hughes and Shanley E. M. Allen: Competing constraints in
children's omission of subjects? The interaction of verb finiteness
and referent accessibility
10: Grzegorz Krajewski and Elena Lieven: Competing cues in early
syntactic development
PART II: Competition in morphosyntax and the lexicon
11: Wolfgang U. Dressler, Gary Libben, and Katharina Korecky-Kröll:
Conflicting vs. converging vs. interdependent motivations in
morphology
12: Martin Haspelmath: On system pressure competing with economic
motivation
13: Britta Mondorf: Apparently competing motivations in
morphosyntactic variation
14: Martin Pfeiffer: Formal vs. functional motivations for the
structure of self-repair in German
15: John Haiman: Six competing motives for repetition
PART III: General issues and the extension of the approach
16: John W. Du Bois: Motivating competitions
17: Sonia Cristofaro: Competing motivation models and diachrony:
What evidence for what motivation?
18: Frederick J. Newmeyer: Where do motivations compete?
19: Johannes Helmbrecht: Politeness distinctions in personal
pronouns: A case study of competing motivations
20: Mira Ariel: Or-constructions: Monosemy vs. polysemy
21: Gunther Kaltenböck and Bernd Heine: Sentence grammar vs.
thetical grammar: Two competing domains
22: Brian MacWhinney: 22. Conclusions: Competition across time
Brian MacWhinney is Professor of Psychology, Computational
Linguistics, and Modern Languages at Carnegie Mellon University. He
has developed a model of first and second language acquisition,
processing, and disorders called the Competition Model, which
describes how language learning emerges from forces operating on
lexically-based patterns across divergent timeframes. It has been
tested through cross-linguistic experimentation, neuroimaging,
online language
learning, and analysis of the CHILDES and TalkBank corpora. His
recent publications include The CHILDES Project: Tools for
Analyzing Talk (3rd ed; Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2000) and,
co-edited with
Roberta Klatzky and Marlene Behrmann, Embodiment, Ego-Space, and
Action (Psychology Press 2008).
Andrej Malchukov is a Senior Researcher at the St. Petersburg
Institute for Linguistic Research (Russian Academy of Sciences) and
is currently affiliated to the University of Mainz as a Visiting
Professor. In addition to descriptive work on Siberian languages,
his main research interests lie in the domain of language typology.
His publications include the edited volumes The Oxford Handbook of
Case (with Andrew Spencer; OUP 2009), Studies in Ditransitive
Constructions: A Comparative
Handbook (with Bernard Comrie and Martin Haspelmath; Mouton de
Gruyter 2010) and Impersonal Constructions: A Cross-Linguistic
Perspective (with Anna Siewierska; John Benjamins 2011).
Edith Moravcsik is Professor Emerita of Linguistics at the
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she has taught for over 30
years. Her publications include the textbooks An Introduction to
Syntax and An Introduction to Syntactic Theory (both Continuum
2006), and Introducing Language Typology (CUP 2013) and the edited
volumes Functionalism and Formalism in Linguistics (with Michael
Darnell, Frederick Newmeyer, Michael Noonan, and Kathleen Wheatley;
John
Benjamins 1999) and Formulaic Language (with Roberta Corrigan,
Hamid Ouali, and Kathleen Wheatley). She has also published a
number of articles on language typology and universals, Hungarian
grammar, and conflict resolution.
This book is a fascinating, rich collection of papers (21 in total)
dealing with the role of competition in syntax (Part I), morphology
and the lexicon (Part II), as well as the nature of competition
more generally (Part III).
*Applied Linguistics*
This book contributes to the understanding of the complexities of
language usage in its examination of conflicting factors.
*Keren Rice, Studies in Language*
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