Current Issues in Linguistic Theory / edited by Roger W. Cole ; contributors: Wallace L. Chafe [and 9 others].

A state-of-the-art survey of a wide spectrum of sub-disciplines within linguistics by some of the most prominent contributors to linguistic theory of our day. The areas covered include phonology, syntax, semantics, discourse theory, sociolinguistics, and historical linguistics. Taken together, the e...

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Place / Publishing House:Bloomington : : Indiana University Press,, 1977.
Year of Publication:1977
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (1 online resource viii, 303 pages) :; illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Conditions on rules of grammar / Noam Chomsky
  • The sociology of language: yesterday, today, and tomorrow / Joshua A. Fishman
  • Topics in lexical semantics / Charles J. Fillmore
  • Semantic domains and componential analysis of meaning / Eugene A. Nida, Johannes P. Louw, and Rondal B. Smith
  • Intentions, assumptions, and contradictions in historical linguistics / Henry M. Hoenigswald
  • Metonymy and misunderstanding: an aspect of language change / Rulon S. Wells
  • The recall and verbalization of past experience / Wallace L. Chafe
  • New directions in phonological theory: language acquisition and universals research / Charles A. Ferguson.