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Catching language : the standing challenge of grammar writing /
This is the first book to focus on the problem of writing grammars of little-known languages, a task of major urgency as linguists face the challenge of documenting the many endangered languages around the world. The chapters, all written by distinguished specialists, address the many questions the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; New York :
M. de Gruyter,
©2006.
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| Colección: | Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ;
167. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Catching language / Nicholas Evans and Alan Dench
- Grammaticography: The art and craft of writing grammars / Ulrike Mosel
- Real descriptions: Reflections on native speaker and non-native speaker descriptions of a language / Felix K. Ameka
- Realizing Humboldt's dream: Cross-linguistic grammatography as data-base creation / Dietmar Zaefferer
- The organization of reference grammars: A typologist user's point of view / Sonia Cristofaro
- Calculus of Possibilities as a Technique in Linguistic Typology / Igor Mel'cuk
- Descriptive theories, explanatory theories, and Basic Linguistic Theory / Matthew S. Dryer
- Let the language tell its story? The role of linguistic theory in writing grammars / Keren Rice
- On describing word order / Randy LaPolla and Dory Poa
- Heterosemy and the grammar-lexicon trade-off / N.J. Enfield
- Field semantics and grammar-writing: Stimuli-based techniques and the study of locative verbs / Birgit Hellwig
- Taking a closer look at function verbs: Lexicon, grammar, or both?/ Eva Schultze-Berndt
- Converbs in an African perspective / Azeb Amha and Gerrit J. Dimmendaal
- From Eurocentrism to Sinocentrism: the case of disposal constructions in Sinitic languages / Hilary Chappell
- How to miss a paradigm or two: Multifunctional ma in Tagalog / Nikolaus P. Himmelmann
- The interplay of synchronic and diachronic discovery in Siouan grammar-writing / Robert L. Rankin
- The historical and cultural dimensions in grammar formation: The case of Modern Greek / Brian D. Joseph
- Polylectal grammar and Royal Thai / Tony Diller
- Writing culture in grammar in the Americanist tradition / Jane H. Hill.