| Description |
1 online resource (x, 278 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Semantic primes within and across languages -- A semantic map for imperative-hortatives -- 'Basic word order' in formal and functional linguistics and the typological status of 'canonical' sentence types -- Division of labour : the role-semantic function of basic order and case -- Action and agent nouns in French and polysemy -- Deverbal nouns and the agentive dimension across languages -- Deverbal nouns in Russian : in search of a dividing line -- Contrastive analysis across time : issues in historical dialogue analysis -- Contrastive textlinguistics and translation universals -- Genre and multimodality : expanding the context for comparison across languages |
| Summary |
Comparison is central to most work in linguistics. But what do linguists compare when they compare languages? Do different levels of linguistic description require their own specific units of comparison? Does the aim and scope of the linguistic description bear any relevance to their choice - or can the same units be used in different linguistic subdisciplines? These are the key questions this book tries to answer. It is not a book about 'contrastive analysis' as a distinctive branch of linguistics, but about comparison in linguistics in general. It is about the analytical apparatus used by linguists and whether this allows comparisons to be made across languages. Among the central concepts treated are semantic primes, pragmatic functions, and basic word order. The ten chapters are grouped in four sections (derivational morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics, and discourse studies) and cover a broad spectrum of linguistic disciplines, ranging from contrastive linguistics and linguistic typology to translation studies and historical linguistics |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Contrastive linguistics.
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REFERENCE.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Alphabets & Writing Systems.
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- General.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Spelling.
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Contrastive linguistics
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Willems, Dominique
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| LC no. |
2003054869 |
| ISBN |
023052463X |
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9780230524637 |
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