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Discourse, Grammar and Typology: Papers in honor of John W.M. Verhaar

By T. Givón , Sandra A. Thompson , Werner Abraham

Book information

Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Year
1995
ISBN
9027230307, 9789027230300
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
31 MB (32478071 bytes)
Series
Studies in Language Companion Series
Pages
375\375
Time added
2015-03-29 08:53:47

Description

This volume combines papers selected for their affinity with work on discourse analysis and language typology. The methodological platform is the authors' conviction that all linguistic work needs to be empirical in the sense that (1) generalizations are to be made on the basis of spoken texts in larger contexts, (2) generalizations are correct only as long as pertinent linguistic material does not contradict them, and (3) that linguistic categories and rules are of a temporal nature. In this sense, the contributions represent 'functional typological' comparison, often of languages not frequently investigated. The papers are arranged in 5 groups: Transitivity and voice; Clausal modality; Typology and discourse categories; Language and Culture; Functionality.

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