John Lyons, Lyons John

Natural Language and Universal Grammar

Volume 1: Essays in Linguistic Theory

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Essays by one of the most influential scholars in modern linguistics, including previously unpublished pieces.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. September 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 503g
• ISBN-13: 9780521023092
• ISBN-10: 0521023092
• Artikelnr.: 22079302

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Typographical conventions
1. Language, speech and writing
2. In defence of (so-called) autonomous linguistics
3. Linguistic theory and theoretical linguistics
4. Natural, non-natural and unnatural languages: English, Urdu and other abstractions
5. The origin of language, speech and languages
6. Phonemic and non-phonemic phonology: some typological reflections
7. Towards a 'notional' theory of the 'parts of speech'
8. Deixis as the source of reference
9. Deixis and anaphora
Appendix: the scientific study of language. Inaugural lecture, Edinburgh, 1965
Notes
References
Subject index
Names index.