LEADER 05655nam 2200661 a 450 001 9910454210103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-19406-2 010 $a9786612194061 010 $a3-11-019769-3 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110197693 035 $a(CKB)1000000000689109 035 $a(EBL)325612 035 $a(OCoLC)290492539 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000118755 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11134478 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000118755 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10053616 035 $a(PQKB)10029215 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC325612 035 $a(DE-B1597)32241 035 $a(OCoLC)741344396 035 $a(OCoLC)853252728 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110197693 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL325612 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10197221 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL219406 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000689109 100 $a20060711d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aCatching language$b[electronic resource] $ethe standing challenge of grammar writing /$fedited by Felix K. Ameka, Alan Dench, Nicholas Evans 210 $aBerlin ;$aNew York $cM. de Gruyter$dc2006 215 $a1 online resource (672 p.) 225 1 $aTrends in linguistics.$aStudies and monographs ;$v167 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a3-11-018603-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIntroduction: Catching language -- $tGrammaticography: The art and craft of writing grammars -- $tReal descriptions: Reflections on native speaker and non-native speaker descriptions of a language -- $tRealizing Humboldt's dream: Cross-linguistic grammatography as data-base creation -- $tThe organization of reference grammars: A typologist user's point of view -- $tCalculus of possibilities as a technique in linguistic typology -- $tDescriptive theories, explanatory theories, and Basic Linguistic Theory -- $tLet the language tell its story? The role of linguistic theory in writing grammars -- $tOn describing word order -- $tHeterosemy and the grammar-lexicon trade-off -- $tField semantics and grammar-writing: Stimulibased techniques and the study of locative verbs -- $tTaking a closer look at function verbs: Lexicon, grammar, or both? -- $tConverbs in an African perspective -- $tFrom Eurocentrism to Sinocentrism: The case of disposal constructions in Sinitic languages -- $tHow to miss a paradigm or two: Multifunctional ma- in Tagalog -- $tThe interplay of synchronic and diachronic discovery in Siouan grammar-writing -- $tThe historical and cultural dimensions in grammar formation: The case of Modern Greek -- $tPolylectal grammar and Royal Thai -- $tWriting culture in grammar in the Americanist tradition -- $t Backmatter 330 $aDescriptive grammars are our main vehicle for documenting and analysing the linguistic structure of the world's 6,000 languages. They bring together, in one place, a coherent treatment of how the whole language works, and therefore form the primary source of information on a given language, consulted by a wide range of users: areal specialists, typologists, theoreticians of any part of language (syntax, morphology, phonology, historical linguistics etc.), and members of the speech communities concerned. The writing of a descriptive grammar is a major intellectual challenge, that calls on the grammarian to balance a respect for the language's distinctive genius with an awareness of how other languages work, to combine rigour with readability, to depict structural regularities while respecting a corpus of real material, and to represent something of the native speaker's competence while recognising the variation inherent in any speech community. Despite a recent surge of awareness of the need to document little-known languages, there is no book that focusses on the manifold issues that face the author of a descriptive grammar. This volume brings together contributors who approach the problem from a range of angles. Most have written descriptive grammars themselves, but others represent different types of reader. Among the topics they address are: overall issues of grammar design, the complementary roles of outsider and native speaker grammarians, the balance between grammar and lexicon, cross-linguistic comparability, the role of explanation in grammatical description, the interplay of theory and a range of fieldwork methods in language description, the challenges of describing languages in their cultural and historical context, and the tensions between linguistic particularity, established practice of particular schools of linguistic description and the need for a universally commensurable analytic framework. 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