© Columbia University Press
An Introduction to Element Theory
Paper, 256 pages, 90 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-7486-3743-0
$40.00
September, 2011
Cloth, 256 pages, 90 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-7486-3742-3
Edinburgh University Press
$120.00
This book invites students of linguistics to challenge and reassess their existing assumptions about the form of phonological representations and the place of phonology in generative grammar. It does this by offering a comprehensive introduction to Element Theory. The book compares the theory with standard models of segmental structure in order to reveal its motivation, its mechanisms and its application to language data. Phillip Backley has been actively involved with recent developments in Element Theory, and is confident that this approach has a promising future as a strong alternative to feature-based models of representation. This book fills a gap for a textbook introduction to the Element Theory model.