Overview

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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Author:   Werner Abraham ,  T. Givón ,  Sandra A. Thompson
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   27
Weight:   0.830kg
ISBN:  

9789027230300

ISBN 10:   9027230307
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   10 February 1995
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction; 2. Curriculum vitae (by Verhaar, S.J., John W.M.); 3. List of publications; 4. Section I: Transitivity and voice; 5. Diathesis: The Middle, Particularly in West-Germanic (by Abraham, Werner); 6. How many Transitivisers are in Kope? (by Clifton, John M.); 7. Complement Clauses versus Relative Clauses: Some Khmer Evidence (by Comrie, Bernard); 8. The two Prototypes of Ditransitive Verbs: The Indonesian Evidence (by Kaswanti, Bambang Purwo); 9. Section II: Clausal modality; 10. The Assertion of High Subjective Certainty: Mufian (Papua New Guinea) Oral Narratives (by Conrad, Robert J.); 11. On the German werden Future (by Heine, Bernd); 12. The Category 'Event' in Natural Discourse and Logic (by Hopper, Paul J.); 13. Section III: Typology and discourse categories; 14. The Category 'S' in English Conversation (by Fox, Barbara A.); 15. A Semantic Basis for Grammatical Typology (by Wierzbicka, Anna); 16. Section IV: Language and culture; 17. Grammatical Signs of the Divided Self: A Study of Language and Culture (by Haiman, John); 18. Language and Culture of Inner Asia's Borderland (by Li, Charles N.); 19. Section V: Functionality; 20. Multifunctionality and the Realization Problem in Modelling Discourse Production (by Cumming, Susanna); 21. Towards an Understanding of Linguistic Evolution and the Notion 'X has a Function Y' (by Durie, Mark); 22. Lice he no good : on [r] and [l] in Tok Pisin (by Romaine, Suzanne); 23. Form and Meaning in Morphology (by Zwanenburg, Wiecher); 24. Subject Index; 25. List of contributors and their academic affiliations

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