Language Networks - The New Word Grammar

Informationen zum Autor Richard Hudson spent all his working life researching and teaching linguistics at University College London. His School of Oriental and African Studies PhD project was a grammar of the Cushitic language Beja, and his subsequent work has focussed innovative and original work in linguistic theory, mostly with reference to Modern English. His previous books include Sociolinguistics (1980, second edition 1996), English Word Grammar (1990), Word Meaning (1995), and English Grammar (1998). Klappentext This book presents a new theory of how we learn and use our knowledge of language and puts this to work in explorations of morphology! syntax! semantics! and sociolinguistics. It introduces the latest version of the author's influential theory of Word Grammar and shows how it can be used to explain the operations of language and as a key to understanding the associated operations of the mind. Language Networks will interest all those concerned with theacquisition and workings of language. Zusammenfassung Presents a different theory of how we learn and use our knowledge of language and puts this to work in explorations of morphology, syntax, semantics, and sociolinguistics. This book introduces a version of the author's influential theory of Word Grammar and shows how it can be used to explain the operations of language. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Introduction 2: Morphology 3: Syntax 4: Gerunds 5: Meaning: Semantics and Sociolinguistics References Index

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• Authors: Richard Hudson, Richard ( Hudson, Richard (Professor of Linguistics At Unive Hudson, Richard A. Hudson, Hudson Richard
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2006
• EAN: 9780199298389
• ISBN: 978-0-19-929838-9
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Oxford Linguistics; Oxford Linguistics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies; Philosophy of Language, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, PHILOSOPHY / Language, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Sociolinguistics, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Language acquisition