William B McGregor

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Neo-Firthian Approaches to Linguistic TypologyPaperback, 4 June 2021

Neo-Firthian Approaches to Linguistic Typology
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Part of Series
Key Concepts in Systemic Functional Linguistics
Print Length
240 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Equinox Publishing (UK)
Date Published
4 Jun 2021
ISBN-10
178179667X
ISBN-13
9781781796672

Description

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, as well as to linguists working within Systemic Functional Linguistics and other functional theories.

Product Details

Author:
William B McGregor
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
GB
Date Published:
4 June 2021
Dimensions:
25.4 x 17.78 x 1.3 cm
ISBN-10:
178179667X
ISBN-13:
9781781796672
Language:
English
Location:
Sheffield
Pages:
240
Weight:
421.84 gm

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