29.1689, Books: On Understanding Grammar: Givón
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Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2018 17:35:50
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: On Understanding Grammar: Givón
Title: On Understanding Grammar
Subtitle: Revised edition
Publication Year: 2018
Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/
Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/z.213
Author: T. Givón
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027264718 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027264718 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027264718 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 99.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027212528 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027212528 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027212528 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 104.94
Abstract:
In his foreword to the original edition of this classic of functionalism,
typology and diachrony, Dwight Bolinger wrote: "I foresee it as one of the
truly prizes statements of our current knowledge… a book about understanding
done with deep understanding – of language and its place in Nature and in the
nature of humankind… The book is rich in insights, even for those who have
been with linguistics for a long time. And beginners could be thankful for
having it as a starting point, from which so many past mistakes have been
shed". Thoroughly revised, corrected and updated, "On Understanding Grammar"
remains, as its author intended it in 1979, a book about trying to make sense
of human language and of doing linguistics. Language is considered here from
multiple perspectives, intersecting with cognition and communication, typology
and universals, grammaticalization, development and evolution. Within such a
broad cross-disciplinary context, grammar is viewed as an automated,
structured language-processing device, assembled through evolution, diachrony
and use. Cross-language diversity is not arbitrary, but rather is tightly
constrained and adaptively motivated, with the balance between universality
and diversity mediated through development, be it evolutionary or diachronic.
The book's take on language harkens back to the works of illustrious
antecedents such as F. Bopp, W. von Humbold, H. Paul, A. Meillet, O. Jespersen
and G. Zipf, offering a coherent alternative to the methodological and
theoretical strictures of Saussure, Bloomfield and Chomsky.
Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
Linguistic Theories
Pragmatics
Syntax
Written In: English (eng)
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