32.2392, Books: Neo-Firthian Approaches to Linguistic Typology: McGregor

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Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2021 22:29:19
From: Janet Joyce [jjoyce at equinoxpub.com]
Subject: Neo-Firthian Approaches to Linguistic Typology: McGregor

 


Title: Neo-Firthian Approaches to Linguistic Typology 
Series Title: Key Concepts in Systemic Functional Linguistics  

Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: Equinox Publishing Ltd
	   http://www.equinoxpub.com/
	

Book URL: https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/neo-firthian/ 


Author: William B. McGregor

Electronic: ISBN:  9781781796689 Pages: 240 Price: U.S. $ 32
Hardback: ISBN:  9781781796665 Pages: 240 Price: U.S. $ 100
Paperback: ISBN:  9781781796672 Pages: 240 Price: U.S. $ 32


Abstract:

Neo-Firthian theories — which include Systemic Functional Linguistics and its
congeners — have, unlike other functionally oriented theories, engaged
minimally with linguistic typology and have made little impact on the wider
discipline. This book offers a programmatic and Neo-Firthian informed
typological investigation that points to potential mutual enrichments of
linguistic typology and Neo-Firthian theories.

On the one hand, this book identifies the inadequacies of the dominant
‘atheoretical’ approaches to linguistic typology, and shows how these can be
circumvented through a firm foundation in a Neo-Firthian theoretical
framework. On the other hand, it contends that Neo-Firthian approaches must
take typology seriously as a criterion of theoretical adequacy, and be able to
account for the full range of grammatical phenomena and their variation across
languages, as well as those features that are universal. Case studies
illustrate this argument through a selection of grammatical phenomena — in
particular, grammatical relations, the noun phrase, complex sentence
constructions, optional case marking and grammatical classification.

This book will be of interest to typologists, and well as to linguistics
working within Systemic Functional Linguistics and other functional theories.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories
                     Typology


Written In: English  (eng)

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