The Role of Theory in Language Description / / ed. by William A. Foley.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 1990 - 1999
• MitwirkendeR: Abdulaziz, Mohamed H.,; Baker, Mark C.,; Becker, A. L.,; Benjamin, Geoffrey,; Bresnan, Joan,; Diller, Anthony,; Evans, Nicholas,; Foley, William A.,; Gumperz, John J.,; Hill, Jane H.,; Lehmann, Christian,; O\x27Connor, M. C.,; Pawley, Andrew,; Payne, Doris L.,; Silverstein, Michael,
• HerausgeberIn: Foley, William A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©1993
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 69
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (467 p.) :; Num. figs.
• Other title: I-VIII --; Introduction --; Noun incorporation and the nature of linguistic representation --; Interaction between grammar and discourse in Chicheŵa (Bantu) --; The elusive figures of Burmese grammar: An essay --; A language which defies description by ordinary means --; The conceptual basis of grammatical relations --; The expanse of grammar in the "waste" of frames --; Culture and conversational inference --; Disjoint reference and pragmatic inference: Anaphora and switch reference in Northern Pomo --; Code, inference, placedness and ellipsis --; Meaning and pragmatics of order in selected South American Indian languages --; Theoretical implications of grammaticalization phenomena --; Grammar and polity: The cultural and political background to Standard Malay --; Diglossic grammaticality in Thai --; Language use and language development: Review of sociolinguistic theory --; Formalism, functionalism and the discourse of evolution --; Language Index --; Subject Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110872835; 9783110636895
• ISSN: 1861-4302
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110872835
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by William A. Foley.