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Makkai, Adam. 1978. Pragmo-ecological grammar (PEG): Toward a new synthesis of linguistics and anthropology. In McCormack, William C. and Stephen A. Wurm, eds. Approaches to language: Anthropological issues. Mouton. pp. 327–361.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

anthropology | functionalism | functions of language | grammar3 | linguistics

Annotation

Building on the view that grammar is to language as autopsy is to general human medicine, M. proposes a pragmo-ecological grammar as an attempt to outline the structure of a theory of language which does not just study aspects of language, but language itself as it functions.