Catching Language : : The Standing Challenge of Grammar Writing / / ed. by Alan Dench, Felix K. Ameka, Nicholas Evans.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Ameka, Felix K.,; Amha, Azeb,; Chappell, Hilary,; Cristofaro, Sonia,; Dench, Alan,; Diller, Tony,; Dimmendaal, Gerrit J.,; Dryer, Matthew S.,; Enfield, N. J.,; Evans, Nicholas,; Hellwig, Birgit,; Hill, Jane H.,; Himmelmann, Nikolaus P.,; Joseph, Brian D.,; LaPolla, Randy,; Mel’čuk, Igor,; Mosel, Ulrike,; Poa, Dory,; Rankin, Robert L.,; Rice, Keren,; Schultze-Berndt, Eva,; Zaefferer, Dietmar,
• HerausgeberIn: Ameka, Felix K.,; Dench, Alan,; Evans, Nicholas,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2008]; ©2006
• Năm xuất bản: 2008
• Ngôn ngữ: English
• Loạt: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 167
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (662 p.)

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, con...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction: Catching language
• Grammaticography: The art and craft of writing
• grammars
• Real descriptions: Reflections on native speaker
• and non-native speaker descriptions of a language
• Realizing Humboldt’s dream: Cross-linguistic
• grammatography as data-base creation
• The organization of reference grammars: A
• typologist user’s point of view
• Calculus of possibilities as a technique in
• linguistic typology
• Descriptive theories, explanatory theories, and
• Basic Linguistic Theory
• Let the language tell its story? The role of
• linguistic theory in writing grammars
• On describing word order
• Heterosemy and the grammar-lexicon
• trade-off
• Field semantics and grammar-writing: Stimulibased
• techniques and the study of locative verbs
• Taking a closer look at function verbs: Lexicon,
• grammar, or both?
• Converbs in an African perspective
• From Eurocentrism to Sinocentrism: The case of
• disposal constructions in Sinitic languages
• How to miss a paradigm or two: Multifunctional ma-
• in Tagalog
• The interplay of synchronic and diachronic
• discovery in Siouan grammar-writing
• The historical and cultural dimensions in grammar
• formation: The case of Modern Greek
• Polylectal grammar and Royal Thai
• Writing culture in grammar in the Americanist
• tradition
• Backmatter