Language Form and Language Function (Language, Speech, and Communication) - Hardcover

Newmeyer, Frederick J.

 
9780262140645: Language Form and Language Function (Language, Speech, and Communication)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0262140640 ISBN 13: 9780262140645
Verlag: MIT Press, 1998

Inhaltsangabe

The two basic approaches to linguistics are the formalist and the functionalistapproaches. In this engaging monograph, Frederick J. Newmeyer, a formalist, argues that bothapproaches are valid. However, because formal and functional linguists have avoided directconfrontation, they remain unaware of the compatability of their results. One of the author's goalsis to make each side accessible to the other. While remaining an ardent formalist, Newmeyer stressesthe limitations of a narrow formalist outlook that refuses to consider that anything of interestmight have been discovered in the course of functionalist-oriented research. He argues that thebasic principles of generative grammar, in interaction with principles in other linguistic domains,provide compelling accounts of phenomena that functionalists have used to try to refute thegenerative approach.

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Verlag
MIT Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1998
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0262140640
ISBN 13 
9780262140645
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Anzahl der Seiten
428
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