Neo-Firthian Approaches to Linguistic Typology
- ISBN-10
- 1800500459
- ISBN-13
- 9781800500457
- Category
- Typology (Linguistics)
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2021
- Author
- William McGregor
Description
"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. It also 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"--
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