Language Typology: A functional perspective (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory) - Hardcover

9781588115591: Language Typology: A functional perspective (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1588115593 ISBN 13: 9781588115591

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2004

This book is intended as a systemic functional contribution to language typology both for those who would like to understand and describe particular languages against the background of generalizations about a wide range of languages and also for those who would like to develop typological accounts that are based on and embody descriptions of the systems of particular languages (rather than isolated constructions). The book is a unique contribution in at least two respects. On the one hand, it is the first book based on systemic functional theory that is specifically concerned with language typology. On the other hand, the book combines the particular with the general in the description of languages: it presents comparable sketches of particular languages while at the same time identifying generalizations based on the languages described here as well as on other languages.
The volume explores eight languages, covering seven language families: French, German, Pitjantjatjara, Tagalog, Telugu, Vietnamese, Chinese, and Japanese.

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