Language : communication and human behavior : the linguistic essays of William Diver / / [William Diver] ; edited, annotated, augmented, and with introductions by Alan Huffman, Joseph Davis

• Autore: Diver William <1921-1995.>
• Pubblicazione: Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2011
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (574 p.)
• Disciplina: 410
• Soggetto topico: Cognitive grammar; Communication; Psycholinguistics
• Altri autori: DavisJoseph <1958-> HuffmanAlan <1948->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminary material / Alan Huffman and Joseph Davis -- THE ENDURING LEGACY OF WILLIAM DIVER / Alan Huffman -- SUBSTANCE AND VALUE IN LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS / William Diver -- THE NATURE OF LINGUISTIC MEANING / William Diver -- THE ELEMENTS OF A SCIENCE OF LANGUAGE / William Diver -- THE DUAL / William Diver -- PUTTING THE HORSE BEFORE THE CART: LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS AND LINGUISTIC THEORY / William Diver -- THE SYSTEM OF RELEVANCE OF THE HOMERIC VERB / William Diver -- SPHERES OF INTERACTION: LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS AND LITERARY ANALYSIS / William Diver -- THE SUBJUNCTIVE WITHOUT SYNTAX / William Diver -- LATIN VOICE AND CASE / William Diver and Joseph Davis -- AVOIDANCE OF THE OBVIOUS: THE PRONOUN AS A MINIMAX SOLUTION / William Diver -- THE LATIN DEMONSTRATIVES / William Diver -- LATIN SE / William Diver -- PHONOLOGY AS HUMAN BEHAVIOR / William Diver -- THE PHONOLOGY OF THE EXTREMES OR, WHAT IS A PROBLEM? / William Diver and Joseph Davis -- THE PHONOLOGICAL MOTIVATION FOR VERNER’S LAW AND GRIMM’S LAW / William Diver and Alan Huffman -- TRADITIONAL GRAMMAR AND ITS LEGACY IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY LINGUISTICS / William Diver , Joseph Davis and Wallis Reid -- THEORY / William Diver -- THE HISTORY OF LINGUISTICS IN THE WEST: HOW THE STUDY OF LANGUAGE WENT WRONG IN THE WESTERN TRADITION / William Diver -- BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM DIVER / Alan Huffman and Joseph Davis -- GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY / Alan Huffman and Joseph Davis -- INDEX / Alan Huffman and Joseph Davis.
• Sommario/riassunto: William Diver of Columbia University (1921-1995) critiqued the very roots of traditional and contemporary linguistics and founded a school of thought that aims for radical aposteriorism in accounting for the distribution of linguistic forms in authentic text. Grammatical and phonological analyses of Homeric Greek, Classical Latin, and Modern English reveal language to be an instrument whose structure is shaped by its communicative function and by the peculiarly human characteristics of its users. Diver's foundational works, many never before published, appear here newly edited and annotated, with introductions by the editors. The volume presents for the first time to a wide audience the depth and originality of Diver's iconoclastic thought.
• Titolo autorizzato: Language
• ISBN: 9786613310613; 9781283310611; 1283310619; 9789004209107; 9004209107
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910974828603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II