Placeholder text

Go to cart

Basic Linguistic Theory Volume 1

By Dixon

Basic Linguistic Theory Volume 1

By Dixon

0 - Default Title
Description
In Basic Linguistic Theory R. M. W. Dixon provides a new and fundamental characterization of the nature of human languages and a comprehensive guide to their description and analysis. In three clearly written and accessible volumes, he describes how best to go about doing linguistics, the most satisfactory and profitable ways to work, and the pitfalls to avoid. In the first volume he addresses the methodology for recording, analysing, and comparinglanguages. He argues that grammatical structures and rules should be worked out inductively on the basis of evidence, explaining in detail the steps by which an attested grammar and lexicon can built up from observed utterances. He shows how the grammars and words of one language may be compared to others of the sameor different families, explains the methods involved in cross-linguistic parametric analyses, and describes how to interpret the results. Volume 2 and volume 3 (to be published in 211) offer in-depth tours of underlying principles of grammatical organization, as well as many of the facts of grammatical variation. 'The task of the linguist,' Professor Dixon writes, 'is to explain the nature of human languages - each viewed as an integrated system - together with an explanation of why eachlanguage is the way it is, allied to the further scientific pursuits of prediction and evaluation.'
Basic Linguistic Theory is the triumphant outcome of a lifetime's thinking about every aspect and manifestation of language and immersion in linguistic fieldwork. It is a one-stop text for undergraduate and graduate students of linguistics, as well as for those in neighbouring disciplines, such as psychology and anthropology.
Product details
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
398
Release Date:
2009-11-30
Publication Date:
2008-11-03
Publisher:
Oxford University Press (UK)
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0199571058
ISBN13:
9780199571055
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
941 g
Height:
183 cm
Width:
260 cm
Thickness:
26 cm
Buy on Amazon
Currently sold out