The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Analysis
Published on 13. September 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
1048 pages
978-0-19-965839-8 (ISBN)
Description
This handbook compares the main analytic frameworks and methods of contemporary linguistics. It offers a unique overview of linguistic theory, revealing the common concerns of competing approaches. By showing their current and potential applications it provides the means by which linguists and others can judge what are the most useful models for the task in hand. Distinguished scholars from all over the world explain the rationale and aims of over thirty explanatory approaches to the description, analysis, and understanding of language. Each chapter considers the main goals of the model; the relation it proposes between lexicon, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and phonology; the way it defines the interaction between cognition and grammar; what it counts as evidence; and how it explains linguistic change and structure.
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this handbook is without an equal ... the breadth offered by the 33 chapters is breathtaking. Werner Abraham, STUF - Language Typology and UniversalsMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 170 mm
Thickness: 59 mm
Weight
1806 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-965839-8 (9780199658398)
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Persons
Bernd Heine is Emeritus Professor at the Institute of African Studies (Institut fur Afrikanistik), University of Cologne. His thirty three books include Cognitive Foundations of Grammar (OUP USA, 1997); with Derek Nurse, African Languages: An introduction (CUP, 2000), and A Linguistic Geography of Africa (CUP, 2007); and with Tania Kuteva, World Lexicon of Grammaticalization (CUP, 2002), and The Changing Languages of Europe (OUP, 2006). Heiko Narrog is Associate Professor at the Graduate School of International Cultural Studies of Tohoku University. He holds two PhDs in linguistics in Germany and Japan, and his publications include Modality in Japanese: The Layered Structure of teh Clause and Hierarchies fo Functional Categories (Benjamins, 2009).
Content
1. Introduction ; 2. The Adaptive Approach to Grammar ; 3. The Cartography of Syntactic Structures ; 4. Categorial Grammar ; 5. Cognitive Grammar ; 6. Embodied Construction Grammar ; 7. Sign-Based Construction Grammar ; 8. Corpus-Based and Corpus-Driven Analyses of Language ; 9. Default Semantics ; 10. Dependency Grammar and Valency Theory ; 11. An Emergentist Approach to Syntax ; 12. Formal Generative Typology ; 13. A Frames Approach to Semantic Analysis ; 14. Framework-Free Grammatical Theory ; 15. Functional Discourse Grammar ; 16. Grammaticalization and Linguistic Analysis ; 17. Lexical-Functional Grammar ; 18. The Natural Semantic Metalanguage Approach ; 19. Linguistic Minimalist ; 20. Morphological Analysis ; 21. Optimality Theory in Phonology ; 22. Optimization Principles in the Typology of Number and Articles ; 23. The Parallel Architecture and its Place in Cognitive Science ; 24. Neo-Gricean Pragmatic Theory of Conversational Implicature ; 25. Probabilistic Linguistics ; 26. Linguistic Relativity ; 27. Relevance Theory ; 28. Role and Reference Grammar as a Framework for Linguistic Analysis ; 29. The Analysis of Signed Languages ; 30. Simpler Syntax ; 31. Systemic Functional Grammar and the Study of Meaning ; 32. Usage-Based Theory ; 33. Word Grammar ; References ; Language Index ; Name Index ; Subject Index