Alternative linguistics [electronic resource] : descriptive and theoretical modes / edited by Philip W. Davis.

Contributor(s): Series: Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory ; ; v. 102.Publication details: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1995.Description: vi, 325 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 410 20
LOC classification:
  • P21 .B54 1995eb
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Contents:
What constitutes "good" data for the study of language development? : how children learn to talk about things with no name : "double emotions" / Michael Bamberg, D.L. Ammirati & Sheila Shea -- The way of language : dimensions of voice / Philip W. Davis -- A syntactic exploration of repair in English conversation / Barbara A. Fox & Robert Jasperson -- Asserting identity / J�anos R�evai -- Viewing in cognition and grammar / Ronald W. Langacker -- What can conversation tell us about syntax? / Tsuyoshi Ono & Sandra A. Thompson -- Prolegomena to the next linguistics / Stephen A. Tyler -- Dictionaries vs. encyclopedias : how to draw the line / Anna Wierzbicka.
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Papers presented at the 5th biennial Symposium of the Dept. of Linguistics, Rice University, Mar. 1993, which was called Descriptive and theoretical modes in the alternative linguistics.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

What constitutes "good" data for the study of language development? : how children learn to talk about things with no name : "double emotions" / Michael Bamberg, D.L. Ammirati & Sheila Shea -- The way of language : dimensions of voice / Philip W. Davis -- A syntactic exploration of repair in English conversation / Barbara A. Fox & Robert Jasperson -- Asserting identity / J�anos R�evai -- Viewing in cognition and grammar / Ronald W. Langacker -- What can conversation tell us about syntax? / Tsuyoshi Ono & Sandra A. Thompson -- Prolegomena to the next linguistics / Stephen A. Tyler -- Dictionaries vs. encyclopedias : how to draw the line / Anna Wierzbicka.

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