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The Role of Theory in Language Description / ed. by William A. Foley.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ; 69Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2011]Copyright date: ©1993Edition: Reprint 2011Description: 1 online resource (467 p.) : Num. figsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110135169
  • 9783110872835
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 410 20
LOC classification:
  • P125 .R65 1993
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
I-VIII -- Introduction -- Noun incorporation and the nature of linguistic representation -- Interaction between grammar and discourse in Chicheŵa (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
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9783110872835

I-VIII -- Introduction -- Noun incorporation and the nature of linguistic representation -- Interaction between grammar and discourse in Chicheŵa (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

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Issued also in print.

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In English.

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