Essays on Time-Based Linguistic Analysis

ISBN-13: 9780198242208 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 432 str.

Larry Bailey; Charles J. Bailey; Charles-James N. Bailey

Opis

This volume on developmental linguistics offers method and rationale for analyses of complex variation in British English and ancient Greek within the grammar--i.e. without regard to the distribution of language variants in geographical or social space. The book offers a host of grammatical (and social) reasons for accepting the beginnings of English as a French creole with Romance-like syntactic phenomena too involved to be viewed as borrowings, though disguised to casual observers by reason of the many Anglo-Saxon calques on French functor words. Two long chapters show how assuming a non-Germanic origin of English combine with a sophisticated theory of reversals in marked environments to disclose an entirely new understanding of English grammar, especially with regard to verb modalities and pronoun usage. Other chapters deal with aspects of historical change and variation in a developmentalist framework.

Recenzje

Bailey reveals in a clear and consistent fashion the main distinction between his own framework and synchronic models ... I commend the author and the publishers of this book. ETLA is very well argued and written ... Further, and most importantly, Oxford University Press and the editors of this book are to be commended for making Bailey's most important work available to the linguistic community in a book that will be easy to obtain at university libraries and for giving Bailey his due credit as one of the most original linguists of this century. ETLA is an important contribution to linguistic theory and language variation and change ... I recommend this book to all linguistics students and scholars of historical linguistics, linguistic variation, and linguistic theory ... This book should be in the library of anyone interested in linguistic theory, historical linguistics, and linguistic variation.