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Catching Language

Catching Language

Ameka, Felix K.
Dench, Alan
Evans, Nicholas

Hardcover

Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [Tilsm], Book 167

Grammar & StyleLinguisticsWriting Instruction

ISBN10: 3110186039
ISBN13: 9783110186031
Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
Published: Nov 16 2006
Pages: 670
Weight: 2.42
Height: 1.58 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.16
Language: English

Descriptive grammars are our main vehicle for documenting and analysing the linguistic structure of the world's 6,000 languages. They bring together, in one place, a coherent treatment of how the whole language works, and therefore form the primary source of information on a given language, consulted by a wide range of users: areal specialists, typologists, theoreticians of any part of language (syntax, morphology, phonology, historical linguistics etc.), and members of the speech communities concerned. The writing of a descriptive grammar is a major intellectual challenge, that calls on the grammarian to balance a respect for the language's distinctive genius with an awareness of how other languages work, to combine rigour with readability, to depict structural regularities while respecting a corpus of real material, and to represent something of the native speaker's competence while recognising the variation inherent in any speech community.

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