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Published 2011.
This volume further elaborates the empirical tradition of Columbia School (CS) Linguistics by offering
diverse empirical analyses for a wide variety of languages. These studies open a much needed debate
advocating the ...
Published 2011.
This volume further elaborates the empirical tradition of Columbia School (CS) Linguistics by offering
diverse empirical analyses for a wide variety of languages. These studies open a much needed debate
advocating the necessity of the independent validation of linguistic hypotheses. This research
exemplifies how such a validation should be conducted by determining which forms underlie the
analyses and extracting those observations that are considered to be objective. The volume consists of
two parts: a section on synchronic and diachronic grammatical problems and a section on Phonology as
Human Behavior (PHB), the Columbia School version of phonology, applied to evolutionary,
developmental and clinical issues and the phonotactics of the selected lexicon of a literary text. It
provides a wealth of useful empirical data and in-depth and sophisticated qualitative and quantitative
analyses of a broad range of languages from diverse families: French, Spanish, Afrikaans, Dutch,
