Language: Communication and Human Behavior: The Linguistic Essays of William Diver - Hardcover

Alan Huffman; Joseph Davis

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004208585 ISBN 13: 9789004208582

Publisher: BRILL, 2011

Synopsis

In these newly edited, annotated, and contextualized foundational linguistic works, many previously unpublished, the late William Diver of Columbia University radically analyzes language as a structure shaped by communicative function and by characteristics of its human users.

About this title

About the Author:

William Diver, Ph.D. (1953) in Linguistics, Columbia University, was Professor of Linguistics at Columbia University and the intellectual founder of the Columbia School of Linguistics. He was Professor Emeritus until his death in 1995. Alan Huffman, Ph.D. (1985) in Linguistics, Columbia University, is Professor of Linguistics and English in The City University of New York. He is the author of The Categories of Grammar: French lui and le (John Benjamins, 1997), and many articles on Columbia School linguistics. Joseph Davis, Ph.D. (1992) in Linguistics, Columbia University, is Associate Professor of Linguistics in the School of Education, The City College of New York. He was co-editor of Advances in Functional Linguistics: Columbia School Beyond its Origins (John Benjamins, 2006).

About this edition

• Publisher: BRILL
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 9004208585
• ISBN 13: 9789004208582
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 578