Language Description Informed by Theory
Editors
| The University of Queensland
| The University of Queensland
| Griffith University
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.
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 147] 2014. xii, 391 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
Map of Australian languages refferred to in this book
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vii
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List of contributors
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xi–xii
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1–14
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15–24
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25–46
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Part 1. Phonology
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49–80
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81–96
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Part 2. Morphology
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99–122
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123–152
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153–190
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Part 3. Syntax
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193–216
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217–262
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263–282
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283–316
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Part 4. Semantics
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319–336
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337–358
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Part 5. Anthropological Linguistics
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361–382
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Language index
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383–384
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Subject index
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385–392
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Subjects
BIC Subject: CFK – Grammar, syntax
BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General