Scales and Hierarchies: A Cross-Disciplinary Perspective
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Queen's University of Belfast
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 71585577
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- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Mouton de Gruyter
- ISBN
- 9783110344134
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- December
- Year of publication
- 2014
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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2
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This interdisciplinary volume on the role of person hierarchies in the encoding of grammatical relations grew out of a DFG-funded project on the Grammar and Processing of Verbal Arguments (Leipzig) on which Richards had been a postdoctoral researcher. It combines work and insights from three main traditions and perspectives within linguistics -- formal-theoretical (qualitative, rule-based), functional-typological (quantitative, usage-based), and psycho/neurolinguistic (cognitive, experimental). Collaborations between these various areas were at the time of conception quite rare, and so this volume (and the project it emerged from) was somewhat ahead of its time in fostering links and bridging gaps between these approaches, bringing together a range of viewpoints often seen as competing rather than complementary, to build a more complete account of the observed phenomena. The three editors represented each of these different backgrounds -- Richards (formal-theoretical), Malchukov (functional-typological), and Bornkessel-Schlesewsky (neuro/cognitive). Richards contributed to the opening introduction, co-written with two co-editors, in which they sought to provide an overview of the subject matter, summarize the various contributions and highlight the connections between the approaches. He contributed a chapter to the volume ("Defective Agree") as a single author. Richards’ editorial contributions were substantial, in that he took on the principal editorial duties. He was the main proofreader, undertaking several edits of the entire volume, and along with an editorial assistant, he typeset an early manuscript version. Richards also dealt with all the peer-review(er)s of the volume, liaising with the contributors in light of the suggestions and overseeing amendments. Furthermore, he singlehandedly compiled and produced the index at the back of the volume -- a painstaking task at the best of times but particularly challenging given the sheer range of topics and perspectives covered by the authors and aforesaid guiding imperative to find and foreground the common underlying themes uniting them.
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- Non-English
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