Usage-based and Typological Approaches to Linguistic Units - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 9027208832 ISBN 13 : 9789027208835

Editeur : John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2021

Synopsis

The chapters in this volume focus on how we might understand the concept of ‘unit’ in human languages. It is an analytical notion that has been widely adopted by linguists of various theoretical and applied orientations but has recently been critically examined by both typologically oriented and interactional linguistics. This volume contributes to and extends this discussion by examining the nature of units in actual usage in a range of genetically and typologically unrelated languages, English, Finnish, Indonesian, Japanese, and Mandarin, engaging with fundamental theoretical issues. The chapters show that categories originally created for the description of Indo-European languages have limited usefulness if our goal is to understand the nature of human language in general. The authors thus question the status of traditionally accepted linguistic units, especially their static understanding as a priori entities, and suggest instead that an emergent and interactional view of both structure and function offers a better fit with the data from the languages examined. Originally published as special issue 43:2 (2019) of Studies in Language.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: John Benjamins Publishing Co
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9027208832
• ISBN 13: 9789027208835
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 210
• Éditeur: Ono Tsuyoshi, Laury Ritva, Suzuki Ryoko
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible