Catching Language
The Standing Challenge of Grammar Writing
Descriptive grammars are our main vehicle for documenting and analysing the linguistic structure of the world's 6,000 languages. They bring together, in one place, a coherent treatment of how the whole language works, and therefore form the primary source of information on a given language, consulted by a wide range of users: areal specialists, typologists, theoreticians of any part of language (syntax, morphology, phonology, historical linguistics etc.), and members of the speech communities concerned. The writing of a descriptive grammar is a major intellectual challenge, that calls on the grammarian to balance a respect for the language's…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Dench, Alan (Hrsg.) / Evans, Nicholas (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-3-11-018603-1
- EAN: 9783110186031
- Produktnummer: 1890977
- Verlag: De Gruyter Mouton
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 672 S.
- Masse: H23.6 cm x B16.0 cm x D4.1 cm 1'137 g
- Abbildungen: HC runder Rücken kaschiert
- Reihenbandnummer: 167
- Gewicht: 1137
Über den Autor
Nicholas Evans is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Alan Dench is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia. Felix K. Ameka is Lecturer at Leiden University, The Netherlands, and Editor of the Journal of African Languages and Linguistics (JALL).
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