Grammar West to East : The Investigation of Linguistic Meaning in European and Chinese Traditions /: The Investigation of Linguistic Meaning in European and Chinese Traditions. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edward McDonald.
• Authors: McDonald, Edward
• 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.
• Publisher Details: Singapore : Springer
• Publication Date: 2020
• Copyright Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (275 pages)
• Subjects: Linguistics; Historical linguistics; Comparative linguistics; Syntax; Grammar; Language Arts & Disciplines -- Linguistics -- General; Language Arts & Disciplines -- Grammar & Punctuation; Historical & comparative linguistics; Grammar, syntax & morphology
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9789811375972
• Related ISBNs: 9789811375958
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