18.3358, Books: Discipline of Ling/Lang Description: Payne, Weber (Eds)

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Subject: Perspectives on Grammar Writing: Payne, Weber (Eds)

 

	
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Title: Perspectives on Grammar Writing 
Series Title: Benjamins Current Topics 11  

Publication Year: 2007 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=BCT%2011 


Editor: Thomas E. Payne
Editor: David J. Weber

Hardback: ISBN: 902722241X 9789027222411 Pages: 228 Price: Europe EURO 85.00
Hardback: ISBN: 902722241X 9789027222411 Pages: 228 Price: U.S. $ 115.00


Abstract:

With over half the languages of the world currently in danger of extinction
within a century, the need for high quality grammatical descriptions is
more urgent than ever. Potential grammar writers, however, often find
themselves paralyzed by the daunting task of describing a language. The
papers in the present volume (originally published in <i>Studies in
Language</i> 30:2 (2006)) provide suggestions and encouragement - from
experienced grammar writers and users - regarding concrete methods for
approaching the task of writing a descriptive grammar of a language.
Salient "themes" emerging from the papers in this volume include: The
necessity of community involvement in grammatical descriptions; The link
between a grammar and the other products of a program of language
documentation (a dictionary and collection of texts); The complementary
functions of elicited vs. naturally occurring data; and grammatical
description as 'art' as well as 'science'. 



Linguistic Field(s): Discipline of Linguistics
                     Language Documentation


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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