Perspectives on Grammar Writing
1st Edition
Published on 4. October 2007
VIII, 218 pages
978-90-272-9208-7 (ISBN)
Description
With over half the languages of the world currently in danger of extinction within a century, the need for high quality grammatical descriptions is more urgent than ever. Potential grammar writers, however, often find themselves paralyzed by the daunting task of describing a language. The papers in the present volume (originally published in Studies in Language 30:2 (2006)) provide suggestions and encouragement - from experienced grammar writers and users - regarding concrete methods for approaching the task of writing a descriptive grammar of a language. Salient "themes" emerging from the papers in this volume include: The necessity of community involvement in grammatical descriptions; The link between a grammar and the other products of a program of language documentation (a dictionary and collection of texts); The complementary functions of elicited vs. naturally occurring data; and grammatical description as 'art' as well as 'science'.
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Thomas E. Payne | David J. Weber
Perspectives on Grammar Writing
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- Perspectives on Grammar Writing
- Editorial page
- Title page
- LCC data
- Dedication
- Table of contents
- Introduction
- Contextualizing a grammar
- Writing grammars for the community
- Collective field work: Advantages or disadvantages?
- Grammars and the community
- From parts of speech to the grammar
- Grammar writing for a grammar-reading audience
- A grammar as a communicative act or What does a grammatical description really describe?
- A typology of good grammars
- Thoughts on growing a grammar
- The linguistic example
- Index
- The series Benjamins Current Topics (BCT)
