The Art of Grammar
A Practical Guide
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 27 November 2014
- ISBN 9780199683215
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages406 pages
- Size 240x162x31 mm
- Weight 770 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This book introduces the principles and practice of writing a comprehensive reference grammar. It describes the means of collecting, analysing, and organizing data, and discusses the typological parameters that can be used to explore relationships with other languages.
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This book introduces the principles and practice of writing a comprehensive reference grammar. Several thousand distinct languages are currently spoken across the globe, each with its own grammatical system and its own selection of diverse grammatical structures. Comprehensive reference grammars offer a basis for understanding linguistic diversity and can provide a unique perspective into the structure and social and cognitive underpinnings of different languages. Alexandra Aikhenvald describes the means of collecting, analysing, and organizing data for use in this type of grammar, and discusses the typological parameters that can be used to explore relationships with other languages. She considers how a grammar can made to reflect and bring to life the society of its speakers through background explanation and the judicious choice of examples, as well as by showing how its language, history, and culture are intertwined. She ends with a full glossary of terms and guidance for those wanting to explore a particular linguistic phenomenon or language family. The Art of Grammar is the ideal resource for students and teachers of linguistics, language studies, and inductively-oriented linguistic, cultural, and social anthropology.
An excellent guide for any linguist wanting to carry out the description of a language. The wealth of clear data from a range of language families ... makes for both an exciting and enriching read. Ultimately, what emerges is that writing a grammar is certainly an art, but also a Herculean task.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: To write a grammar
A language and its setting
Basics
Sounds and their functions
Word classes
Nouns
Verbs
Adjectives and adverbs
Closed classes
Who does what to whom: grammatical relations
Clause and sentence types
Clause linking and complex clauses
Language in context
Why is a language the way it is?
How to create a grammar and how to read one
Glossary
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