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The role of theory in language description / edited by William A. Foley.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]
- Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 69
- Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 1861-4302 ; 69
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Linguistics.
- Description (Rhetoric).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (476 p.)
- Edition:
- Reprint 2011
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 1993.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- No detailed description available for "The Role of Theory in Language Description".
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Introduction / Foley, William A.
- Noun incorporation and the nature of linguistic representation / Baker, Mark C.
- Interaction between grammar and discourse in Chicheŵa (Bantu) / Bresnan, Joan
- The elusive figures of Burmese grammar: An essay / Becker, A. L.
- A language which defies description by ordinary means / Pawley, Andrew
- The conceptual basis of grammatical relations / Foley, William A.
- The expanse of grammar in the "waste" of frames / Silverstein, Michael
- Culture and conversational inference / Gumperz, John J.
- Disjoint reference and pragmatic inference: Anaphora and switch reference in Northern Pomo / O'Connor, M. C.
- Code, inference, placedness and ellipsis / Evans, Nicholas
- Meaning and pragmatics of order in selected South American Indian languages / Payne, Doris L.
- Theoretical implications of grammaticalization phenomena / Lehmann, Christian
- Grammar and polity: The cultural and political background to Standard Malay / Benjamin, Geoffrey
- Diglossic grammaticality in Thai / Diller, Anthony
- Language use and language development: Review of sociolinguistic theory / Abdulaziz, Mohamed H.
- Formalism, functionalism and the discourse of evolution / Hill, Jane H.
- Language Index
- Subject Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)
- ISBN:
- 9783110872835
- 3110872838
- OCLC:
- 922945221
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