| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 662 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 167 |
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Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 167.
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| Contents |
Introduction: Catching language / Nicholas Evans and Alan Dench -- Grammaticography: The art and craft of writing grammars / Ulrike Mosel -- Real descriptions: Reflections on native speaker and non-native speaker descriptions of a language / Felix K. Ameka -- Realizing Humboldt's dream: Cross-linguistic grammatography as data-base creation / Dietmar Zaefferer -- The organization of reference grammars: A typologist user's point of view / Sonia Cristofaro -- Calculus of Possibilities as a Technique in Linguistic Typology / Igor Mel'cuk -- Descriptive theories, explanatory theories, and Basic Linguistic Theory / Matthew S. Dryer -- Let the language tell its story? The role of linguistic theory in writing grammars / Keren Rice -- On describing word order / Randy LaPolla and Dory Poa -- Heterosemy and the grammar-lexicon trade-off / N.J. Enfield -- Field semantics and grammar-writing: Stimuli-based techniques and the study of locative verbs / Birgit Hellwig -- Taking a closer look at function verbs: Lexicon, grammar, or both?/ Eva Schultze-Berndt -- Converbs in an African perspective / Azeb Amha and Gerrit J. Dimmendaal -- From Eurocentrism to Sinocentrism: the case of disposal constructions in Sinitic languages / Hilary Chappell -- How to miss a paradigm or two: Multifunctional ma in Tagalog / Nikolaus P. Himmelmann -- The interplay of synchronic and diachronic discovery in Siouan grammar-writing / Robert L. Rankin -- The historical and cultural dimensions in grammar formation: The case of Modern Greek / Brian D. Joseph -- Polylectal grammar and Royal Thai / Tony Diller -- Writing culture in grammar in the Americanist tradition / Jane H. Hill |
| Summary |
This is the first book to focus on the problem of writing grammars of little-known languages, a task of major urgency as linguists face the challenge of documenting the many endangered languages around the world. The chapters, all written by distinguished specialists, address the many questions the author of a reference grammar must tackle as they destil the regularities of a whole language into a single integrated volume |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Language and languages -- Grammars -- Authorship
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric.
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REFERENCE -- Writing Skills.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Composition & Creative Writing.
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Grammatica's.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Ameka, Felix K.
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Dench, Alan Charles.
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Evans, Nicholas, 1956-
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| LC no. |
2006022868 |
| ISBN |
3110197693 |
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9783110197693 |
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