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Record Nr.

UNINA9910370051003321

Autore

McDonald Edward

Titolo

Grammar West to East : The Investigation of Linguistic Meaning in European and Chinese Traditions / / by Edward McDonald

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2020

ISBN

981-13-7597-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xx, 275 pages) : illustrations

Collana

The M.A.K. Halliday Library Functional Linguistics Series, , 2198-9869

Disciplina

417.7

Soggetti

Language and languages—Philosophy

Historical linguistics

Comparative linguistics

Syntax

Linguistics

Philosophy of Language

Historical Linguistics

Comparative Linguistics

Linguistics, general

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

This book compares the historical development of ideas about language in two major traditions of linguistic scholarship from either end of Eurasia – the Graeco-Roman and the Sinitic – as well as their interaction in the modern era. It locates the emergence of language analysis in the development of writing systems, and examines the cultural and political functions fulfilled by traditional language scholarship. Moving into the modern period and focusing specifically on the study of “grammar” in the sense of morph syntax/ lexico grammar, it traces the transformation of “traditional” Latin grammar from the viewpoint of its adaptation to Chinese, and discusses the development of key concepts used to characterize and analyze grammatical patterns.