Language Description Informed by Theory
- Editor(s): Rob Pensalfini 1 , Myfany Turpin 1 and Diana Guillemin 2
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View Affiliations Hide AffiliationsAffiliations:1 The University of Queensland2 Griffith University
- Format: PDF
- Publication Date January 2014
- e-Book ISBN: 9789027270917
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.147
This volume explores how linguistic theories inform the ways in which languages are described. Theories, as representations of linguistic categories, guide the field linguist to look for various phenomena without presupposing their necessary existence and provide the tools to account for various sets of data across different languages. A goal of linguistic description is to represent the full range of language structures for any given language. The chapters in this book cover various sub-disciplines of linguistics including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, language acquisition, and anthropological linguistics, drawing upon theoretical approaches such as prosodic Phonology, Enhancement theory, Distributed Morphology, Minimalist syntax, Lexical Functional Grammar, and Kinship theory. The languages described in this book include Australian languages (Pama-Nyungan and non-Pama-Nyungan), Romance languages as well as English. This volume will be of interest to researchers in both descriptive and theoretical linguistics.
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