Neo-Firthian Approaches to Linguistic Typology

1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-78179-667-2
Verlag: Equinox Publishing Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 460 g

Reihe: Key Concepts in Systemic Functional Linguistics

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mcgregor, William B.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface 1 Introduction 2 Grammatical Relations and Transitivity 3 The Noun Phrase 4 Complex Sentence Constructions 5 Optional Case Marking 6 Verb Classification 7 Conclusions

Über Autor(innen)

Mcgregor, William B.
William B. McGregor is Professor of Linguistics at Aarhus University. He is the author of a number of publications including most recently, Linguistics: An Introduction (2nd edition) published by Bloomsbury in 2015.