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.

Table of Contents

• 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