Grammar West to East : the Investigation of Linguistic Meaning in European and Chinese Traditions / by Edward McDonald

Bib ID:
8544366
Format:
Book
Author:
McDonald, Edward, 1963-
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Description:
  • Singapore : Springer, 2020
  • 1 online resource ( xx, 275 pages) : illustrations.
ISBN:
  • 9789811375972 ((electronic bk.))
  • 9811375976 ((electronic bk.))
Invalid ISBN:
9789811375958 ((print))
Series:
M. A. K. Halliday Library functional linguistics series.
Full contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Briefing Key issues and organisational features of this book
  • Prelude Framing the problem of language and meaning
  • Part I Traditions of language study: Graeco-Roman vis-à-vis Sinitic
  • Chapter 1 Language, writing and metaphors for language
  • Snapshot 1 Dialectic; Analogy v. anomaly
  • Chapter 2 Language in education and the foundations of linguistic scholarship
  • Snapshot 2 Ordering of words; Language as manifestation of the way
  • Chapter 3 The discovery of language history
  • Snapshot 3 Characters and order of universe; Grammatical form as expression of mind
  • Chapter 4 From philology to linguistics
  • Interlude Establishing a modern paradigm
  • Part II The making of modern grammatics: developing tools for the analysis of wording
  • Chapter 5 From "(single) articulation" to "double articulation": meaning ↔ wording ↔ sound
  • Chapter 6 "Parts of speech" and "word classes": defining basic categories for grammatical analysis
  • Chapter 7 "Word grammar" and "clause grammar": separating morphological from syntactic patterning
  • Chapter 8 Syntagmatic and paradigmatic relations: structure and system
  • Postlude The long 20th century of linguistics
  • Debriefing The history of linguistics and the study of language
  • References.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reproduction:
Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
Subject:
Grammar, Comparative and general
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