The Art of Grammar: A Practical Guide
Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
Abstract
Linguistics is the science of language, similar to how mathematics is the science of numbers. A reference grammar is a scientific enterprise. It brings together a coherent treatment of each language as a system where everything fits together, within the cultural, and historical, context of the language. This book introduces the principles and practice of writing a comprehensive reference grammar. The aim of this book is to offer a guide for creating a reference grammar based on empirical facts and combining description, interpretation, and analysis, spanning phonology, morphology, syntax, disc ... More
Keywords: reference grammar, grammar, morphology, phonology, syntax, discourse, semantics
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2014 | Print ISBN-13: 9780199683215 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2015 | DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199683215.001.0001 |
