The Role of Theory in Language Description
Role of Theory in Language Description
1st Edition
Published on 15. June 2011
VIII, 467 pages
978-3-11-087283-5 (ISBN)
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Reprint 2011
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin/Boston
Germany
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de Gruyter Mouton
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Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
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16,56 MB
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978-3-11-087283-5 (9783110872835)
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Content
- Intro
- Introduction
- Noun incorporation and the nature of linguistic representation
- Interaction between grammar and discourse in Chichew^a (Bantu)
- The elusive figures of Burmese grammar: An essay
- A language which defies description by ordinary means
- The conceptual basis of grammatical relations
- The expanse of grammar in the "waste" of frames
- Culture and conversational inference
- Disjoint reference and pragmatic inference: Anaphora and switch reference in Northern Pomo
- Code, inference, placedness and ellipsis
- Meaning and pragmatics of order in selected South American Indian languages
- Theoretical implications of grammaticalization phenomena
- Grammar and polity: The cultural and political background to Standard Malay
- Diglossic grammaticality in Thai
- Language use and language development: Review of sociolinguistic theory
- Formalism, functionalism and the discourse of evolution
- Language index
- Subject index
