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The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Analysis

Bernd Heine editor Heiko Narrog editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Published:19th Feb '15

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This handbook compares the main analytic frameworks and methods of contemporary linguistics. It offers a unique overview of linguistic theory, revealing the common concerns of competing approaches. By showing their current and potential applications it provides the means by which linguists and others can judge what are the most useful models for the task in hand. Distinguished scholars from all over the world explain the rationale and aims of over thirty explanatory approaches to the description, analysis, and understanding of language. Each chapter considers the main goals of the model; the relation it proposes from between lexicon, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and phonology; the way it defines the interactions between cognition and grammar; what it counts as evidence; and how it explains linguistic change and structure. The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Analysis offers an indispensable guide for everyone researching any aspect of language including those in linguistics, comparative philology, cognitive science, developmental philology, cognitive science, developmental psychology, computational science, and artificial intelligence. This second edition has been updated to include seven new chapters looking at linguistic units in language acquisition, conversation analysis, neurolinguistics, experimental phonetics, phonological analysis, experimental semantics, and distributional typology.

`Review from previous edition this handbook is without an equal ... the breadth offered by the 33 chapters is breathtaking.' Werner Abraham, STUF - Language Typology and Universals

ISBN: 9780199677078

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 1726g

1216 pages

2nd Revised edition