On Understanding Grammar

Released on by Talmy Givón
preview-18

  • On Understanding Grammar Book Detail

  • Author : Talmy Givón
  • Release Date : 2014-05-10
  • Publisher : Academic Press
  • Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Pages : 396
  • ISBN 13 : 1483259935
  • File Size : 52,52 MB
DOWNLOAD BOOK

On Understanding Grammar by Talmy Givón PDF Summary

Book Description: On Understanding Grammar covers the interdependencies among the various aspects of linguistics and the human language. This eight-chapter text considers some pertinent topics in linguistics, such as discourse-pragmatics, diachronic syntax, topology, creology, method, and ontology. Chapter 1 describes the notions of fact, theory, and explanation, particularly about how these notions manifest themselves in actual practice. Chapter 2 redefines syntax in terms of communicative function and discourse-pragmatics, and about the relation between the function of grammatical devices and their formal properties. Chapter 3 deals with discourse-pragmatics and how it transcends the narrow bounds of deductive logic, as well as the function and ontology of negation in language, and how those relate to the fundamental information-theoretic principle of figure versus ground. Chapter 4 explores the two major aspects of case systems, namely, the semantic role and pragmatic function, and how the two interact in determining the typological characteristics of grammars. Chapter 5 examines the relation between discourse and syntax based on diachronic, ontogenetic, phylogenetic viewpoints. Chapter 6 tackles the relation between synchronic grammar and diachronic change, while Chapter 7 describes the relationship between human language and its phylogenetic evolution. Chapter 8 is about language and ontology, as well as the relation between cognition and the universe. This book will prove useful to linguistics and language researchers.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own On Understanding Grammar books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

On Understanding Grammar

On Understanding Grammar

File Size : 81,81 MB
Total View : 1289 Views
DOWNLOAD

On Understanding Grammar covers the interdependencies among the various aspects of linguistics and the human language. This eight-chapter text considers some pe

On Understanding Grammar

On Understanding Grammar

File Size : 19,19 MB
Total View : 7175 Views
DOWNLOAD

In his foreword to the original edition of this classic of functionalism, typology and diachrony, Dwight Bolinger wrote: "I foresee it as one of the truly prize

Understanding English Grammar

Understanding English Grammar

File Size : 67,67 MB
Total View : 382 Views
DOWNLOAD

Unlike other textbooks, it helps students to understand grammar rather than see it as a set of facts and rules.

Understanding English Grammar

Understanding English Grammar

File Size : 33,33 MB
Total View : 4679 Views
DOWNLOAD

For courses in Advanced Grammar. The essentials of English grammar, with a distinctively clear organization and user-friendly language Understanding English Gra