Basic Linguistic Theory Volume 1

出版者:Oxford University Press

作者:R. M. W. Dixon

页数:416

出版时间:2009-11-30

价格:USD 200.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780199571055

图书标签:语言学类型学语言类型学方法论语法工具书

In Basic Linguistic Theory R. M. W. Dixon provides a new and fundamental characterization of the nature of human languages and a comprehensive guide to their description and analysis. In three clearly written and accessible volumes, he describes how best to go about doing linguistics, the most satisfactory and profitable ways to work, and the pitfalls to avoid. In the first volume he addresses the methodology for recording, analysing, and comparing languages. He argues that grammatical structures and rules should be worked out inductively on the basis of evidence, explaining in detail the steps by which an attested grammar and lexicon can built up from observed utterances. He shows how the grammars and words of one language may be compared to others of the same or different families, explains the methods involved in cross-linguistic parametric analyses, and describes how to interpret the results. Volume 2 and volume 3 (to be published in 2011) offer in-depth tours of underlying principles of grammatical organization, as well as many of the facts of grammatical variation. 'The task of the linguist,' Professor Dixon writes, 'is to explain the nature of human languages - each viewed as an integrated system - together with an explanation of why each language is the way it is, allied to the further scientific pursuits of prediction and evaluation.' Basic Linguistic Theory is the triumphant outcome of a lifetime's thinking about every aspect and manifestation of language and immersion in linguistic fieldwork. It is a one-stop text for undergraduate and graduate students of linguistics, as well as for those in neighbouring disciplines, such as psychology and anthropology.

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谆谆之教。印象最深的是说到为什么要进行田野调查。作者指出，很关键的一点是你要对你所做之事感兴趣。而不是因为该语言濒危了，所以我have to调查。很受启发！真正的科学研究一定是兴趣驱使的！

大体看了一遍，很值得花时间细度