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In Basic Linguistic Theory R. M. W. Dixon provides a new and fundamental characterization of the nature of human languages and a comprehensive guide to their description and analysis. In three clearly written and accessible volumes, he describes how best to go about doing linguistics, the most satisfactory and profitable ways to work, and the pitfalls to avoid. In the first volume he addresses the methodology for recording, analysing, and comparing languages. He argues that grammatical structures and rules should be worked out inductively on the basis of evidence, explaining in detail the steps by which an attested grammar and lexicon can built up from observed utterances. He shows how the grammars and words of one language may be compared to others of the same or different families, explains the methods involved in crosslinguistic parametric analyses, and describes how to interpret the results. Volume 2 and volume 3 (to be published in 211) offer indepth tours of underlying principles of grammatical organization, as well as many of the facts of grammatical variation. The task of the linguist, Professor Dixon writes, is to explain the nature of human languages each viewed as an integrated system together with an explanation of why each language is the way it is, allied to the further scientific pursuits of prediction and evaluation. Basic Linguistic Theory is the triumphant outcome of a lifetimes thinking about every aspect and manifestation of language and immersion in...
Binding: Hardcover;398 pages; Publisher: Oxford University Press; Classification: CFF; Weight: 989 g; Dimensions: 253 x 177 x 28
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In Basic Linguistic Theory R. M. W. Dixon provides a new and fundamental characterization of the nature of human languages and a comprehensive guide to their description and analysis. In three clearly written and accessible volumes, he describes how best to go about doing linguistics, the most satisfactory and profitable ways to work, and the pitfalls to avoid. In the first volume he addresses the methodology for recording, analysing, and comparing languages. He argues that grammatical structures and rules should be worked out inductively on the basis of evidence, explaining in detail the steps by which an attested grammar and lexicon can built up from observed utterances. He shows how the grammars and words of one language may be compared to others of the same or different families, explains the methods involved in crosslinguistic parametric analyses, and describes how to interpret the results. Volume 2 and volume 3 (to be published in 211) offer indepth tours of underlying principles of grammatical organization, as well as many of the facts of grammatical variation. The task of the linguist, Professor Dixon writes, is to explain the nature of human languages each viewed as an integrated system together with an explanation of why each language is the way it is, allied to the further scientific pursuits of prediction and evaluation. Basic Linguistic Theory is the triumphant outcome of a lifetimes thinking about every aspect and manifestation of language and immersion in...
Binding: Hardcover;398 pages; Publisher: Oxford University Press; Classification: CFF; Weight: 989 g; Dimensions: 253 x 177 x 28
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