Word Grammar

Perspectives on a Theory of Language Structure

Inbunden, Engelska, 2005

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Beskrivning

This book is an introduction to Word Grammar, a theory of language structure founded and developed by Dick Hudson. In this theory, language is a cognitive network - a network of concepts, words and meanings containing all the elements of a linguistic analysis. The theory of language is therefore embedded in a theory of knowledge, in which there are no boundaries between one form of knowledge and any other. Contributors to this volume are primarily Word Grammar grammarians from across the world. All the chapters here manifest theoretical potentialities of Word Grammar, exploring how powerful Word Grammar is to offer analysis for linguistic phenomena in various languages. The chapters come from varying perspectives and include work on a number of languages, including English, German, Japanese, Swahili, Turkish and Ancient Greek. Phenomena studied include verbal inflection, case agreement, extraction, construction and code-mixing. This new collection will be of interest to academics encountering Word Grammar for the first time, or for those who are already familiar with this theory and are interested in reading how it has evolved and what its future may hold.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2005-12-15
Mått:156 x 234 x 18 mm
Vikt:300 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9780826486455

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Mer om författaren

Kensei Sugayama is Professor in the Department of English, Kobe City University of Foreign Studies, Japan. Richard A. Hudson is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Phonetics and Linguistics, University College London.

Recensioner i media

'The book as a whole gives an interesting insight into the state-of-the-art Word Grammar framework and the possible fields of application other than syntax. The contribution by its founder is valuable, in that it puts the theory into perspective and projects it into the future challenges of the language science field.' Valeria Quochi, University of Pisa, Italy.

Innehållsförteckning

1. What is Word Grammar?; Dick Hudson, UCL; Part I: Word Grammar Approaches to Linguistic Analysis; 2. Case Agreement in Ancient Greek: Implications for a Theory of Covert Elements; Chet Creider (University of Western Ontario, Canada) and Dick Hudson; 3. Understood Objects in Japanese and English: A Word Grammar Account; Kensei Sugayama (Kobe City University, Japan). 4. Argument Linking in Word Grammar; Jasper Holmes; 5. Word Grammar and Syntactic Code-Switching Research; Eva Eppler (University of Surrey, Roehampton); 6. Re-Consideration of the Particle ml in Turkish: An Approach from Clitics and Hostword; Taiki Yoshimura (Ankara University); Part II: Towards a Better Word Grammar; 7. Word Grammar Surface Structures and HPSG Order Domains; Takahumi Maekawa (University of Essex); 8. Distributional Heads and Structural Heads; And Rosta (University of Central Lancashire); 9. Factoring out the Subject Dependency; Nik Gisborne (University of Edinburgh); 10. Conclusion; Kensei Sugayama and Dick Hudson; References.