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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784990503321

Titolo

Word grammar [[electronic resource] ] : new perspectives on a theory of language structure / / edited by Kensei Sugayama and Richard Hudson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Continuum, 2006

ISBN

1-4411-8652-2

1-281-29498-5

9786611294984

1-84714-273-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (251 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SugayamaKensei

HudsonRichard A

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Dependency grammar

Generative grammar

Grammar, Comparative and general - Word order

English language - Semantics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"This volume comes from a three-year (April 2002-March 2005) research project on word grammar supported by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science"--Preface.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Contributors; Preface; Introduction; 1. What is Word Grammar?; Part I: Word Grammar Approaches to Linguistic Analysis: Its explanatory power and applications; Part II: Towards a Better Word Grammar; Conclusion; Author Index; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book is an introduction to Word Grammar, a theory of language structure founded and developed by Dick Hudson. In this theory, language is a cognitive network  - a network of concepts, words and meanings containing all the elements of a linguistic analysis. The theory of language is therefore embedded in a theory of knowledge, in which there are no boundaries between one form of knowledge and any other. The most controversial idea in Word Grammar syntax is that phrase structure is redundant, because all its work can be done by means of dependencies between individual words. Word-word depen