Language Description Informed by Theory: 147 (Studies in Language Companion Series) - Hardcover

 
9789027206145: Language Description Informed by Theory: 147 (Studies in Language Companion Series)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 9027206147 ISBN 13: 9789027206145
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2014

Synopsis

This volume explores how linguistic theories inform the ways in which languages are described. Theories, as representations of linguistic categories, guide the field linguist to look for various phenomena without presupposing their necessary existence and provide the tools to account for various sets of data across different languages. A goal of linguistic description is to represent the full range of language structures for any given language. The chapters in this book cover various sub-disciplines of linguistics including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, language acquisition, and anthropological linguistics, drawing upon theoretical approaches such as prosodic Phonology, Enhancement theory, Distributed Morphology, Minimalist syntax, Lexical Functional Grammar, and Kinship theory. The languages described in this book include Australian languages (Pama-Nyungan and non-Pama-Nyungan), Romance languages as well as English. This volume will be of interest to researchers in both descriptive and theoretical linguistics.

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Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Co
Publication date
2014
Language
English
ISBN 10 
9027206147
ISBN 13 
9789027206145
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
403
Editor
Pensalfini Rob, Turpin Myfany, Guillemin Diana