32.1706, Books: Usage-based and Typological Approaches to Linguistic Units: Ono, Laury, Suzuki (eds.)

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Date: Fri, 14 May 2021 16:45:58
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: Usage-based and Typological Approaches to Linguistic Units: Ono, Laury, Suzuki (eds.)

 


Title: Usage-based and Typological Approaches to Linguistic Units 
Series Title: Benjamins Current Topics 114  

Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/bct.114 


Editor: Tsuyoshi Ono
Editor: Ritva Laury
Editor: Ryoko Suzuki

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027259837 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 135.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027259837 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 76.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027259837 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 90.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027208835 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 135.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027208835 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 76.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027208835 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 95.40


Abstract:

The chapters in this volume focus on how we might understand the concept of
‘unit’ in human languages. It is an analytical notion that has been widely
adopted by linguists of various theoretical and applied orientations but has
recently been critically examined by both typologically oriented and
interactional linguistics. This volume contributes to and extends this
discussion by examining the nature of units in actual usage in a range of
genetically and typologically unrelated languages, English, Finnish,
Indonesian, Japanese, and Mandarin, engaging with fundamental theoretical
issues. The chapters show that categories originally created for the
description of Indo-European languages have limited usefulness if our goal is
to understand the nature of human language in general. The authors thus
question the status of traditionally accepted linguistic units, especially
their static understanding as a priori entities, and suggest instead that an
emergent and interactional view of both structure and function offers a better
fit with the data from the languages examined. Originally published as special
issue 43:2 (2019) of "Studies in Language".
 



Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories
                     Typology


Written In: English  (eng)

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