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CATCHING LANGUAGE
THE STANDING CHALLENGE OF GRAMMAR WRITING |
| By: |
Felix K. Ameka (Editor), Alan Dench (Editor), Nicholas Evans (Editor) |
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Hardback |
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£192.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
3110186039 |
| ISBN 13: |
9783110186031 |
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| Publisher: |
DE GRUYTER |
| Series: |
Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] 167 |
| Pages: |
662 |
| Description: |
Addresses topics such as: overall issues of grammar design, the complementary roles of outsider and native speaker grammarians, the balance between grammar and lexicon, cross-linguistic comparability, the role of explanation in grammatical description, and more. This book is of interest to descriptive linguists, typologists, and formal linguists. |
| Synopsis: |
This is the first book to focus on the problem of writing grammars of little-known languages, a task of major urgency as linguists face the challenge of documenting the many endangered languages around the world. The chapters, all written by distinguished specialists, address the many questions the author of a reference grammar must tackle as they destil the regularities of a whole language into a single integrated volume. |
| Publication: |
Germany |
| Imprint: |
De Gruyter Mouton |
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Non-returnable |