Are Some Languages Better than Others?
This book sets out to answer a question that many linguists have been hesitant to ask: are some languages better than others? Can we say, for instance, that because German has three genders and French only two, German is a better language in this respect? Jarawara, spoken in the Amazonian jungle, has two ways of showing possession: one for a part (e.g. 'Father's foot') and the other for something which is owned and can be given away or sold (e.g. 'Father's knife');is it thus a better language, in this respect, than English, which marks all possession in the same way?R. M. W. Dixon begins by outlining what he feels are the essential components…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-107941-2
- EAN: 9780191079412
- Produktnummer: 29057146
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 208 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 1'422 KB
Über den Autor
R. M. W. Dixon is Adjunct Professor and Deputy Director of the Language and Culture Research Centre at James Cook University. He has written extensively on a number of Australian and Amazonian languages, as well as on ergativity, semantics, and English grammar. His many books include The Rise and Fall of Languages (CUP 1997), Basic Linguistic Theory (OUP 2010-2), Making New Words (OUP 2014), and Edible Gender, Mother-in-Law Style, andOther Grammatical Wonders (OUP 2015). Dixon's academic biography I am a Linguist was published by Brill in 2011.
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