{"product_id":"contemporary-linguistic-parameters-9781350097049","title":"Contemporary Linguistic Parameters","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Antonio Fabregas\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Linguistics - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eParameters have lain at the core of linguistic research in the generative tradition for decades. The theoretical questions they have raised are deep and broad: this reference text investigates how contemporary linguistics has best tried to answer them. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book looks at how parameters might be properly defined and what their locus might be: lexical information, functional heads, the computational system, the phonological branch of the grammar. What kind of data forms trigger acquisition of a parameter? Are parameters necessary or can we study languages without making reference to them? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe questions looked at are not just theoretical: how can a theory of parameters be used to help understand second language acquisition, and what contributions can it make to the study of language typology? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is the right time to gather all this information, dispersed in many different kinds of publications by single authors and groups, into one comprehensive volume.","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45083011874967,"sku":"9781350097049","price":6243.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781350097049.webp?v=1767898167","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/contemporary-linguistic-parameters-9781350097049","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}