Fred W. Householder, Householder

Linguistic Speculations

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This 1974 book is a personal survey by an eminent linguist, testing the adequacy of descriptive theories.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 597g
• ISBN-13: 9780521174275
• ISBN-10: 0521174279
• Artikelnr.: 32468576

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. The ultimate goals
2. Remembering and talking
3. What must a language be like?
4. Sounds
5. Sameness, similarity, analogy, rules and features
6. Mood, modality and illocution
7. On rules of grammar, ordered and unordered
8. Subgrammars, planes, levels and components
9. Phonemes and distinctive features: I
10. Phonemes and distinctive features: II
11. Discovery and testing: I phonology
12. Discovery and testing: II morphology, syntax, semantics
13. The primacy of writing
14. Accent, stress, prosodies and tonal features
15. Corrections, revisions and centos
16. Idiolect, dialect, linguistic change and the neogrammarian principle
Bibliography
Index.