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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458166303321

Autore

Hudson Richard A

Titolo

Language networks [[electronic resource] ] : the new word grammar / / Richard Hudson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007

ISBN

1-280-75671-3

0-19-151484-5

1-4294-6023-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (288 p.)

Collana

Oxford linguistics

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-263) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; 1 Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 Morphology; 3 Syntax; 4 Gerunds; 5 Meaning: Semantics and Sociolinguistics; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 the acquisition and. workings of language. - ;This book argues that language is a network of concepts which in turn is part of the general cognitiv