Essays on time-based linguistic analysis

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The purpose of this volume is to make easily available a representative selection of Charles-James N. Bailey's views on linguistic theory. Several previously published papers have been extensively revised and updated for the collection, which also contains two new chapters. The collection is flanked by a new Prologue and Epilogue, and the whole is preceded by Peter Muhlhausler's Introduction which offers a critical appraisal of Professor Bailey's contribution to the field.

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Full title :Essays on time-based linguistic analysis / Charles-James N. Bailey ; with an introduction by Peter Mühlhäusler.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:1996.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:Oxford [England]
Language:eng
Publication Date:1996.

Notes

Collection of previously published material.

The Physical Object

Description:423 pages ; : 25 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0198242204, 9780198242208
oclc:ocm33948221
LC Classification:P126
Dewey Decimal:417/.7

Variation theory and so-called sociolinguistic grammars -- Theory, description, and what keeps linguistics from becoming a science -- Conceptualizing dialects as implicational constellations rather than as entities bounded by isoglossic bundles -- Reversals in marked categories and contexts -- What grammarians haven't been doing right, or, Unriddling analytical paradoxes -- Old and new views on language history and language relationships -- Reconstructing language development -- A note on [x], [ss], and a ruki-rule in ancient Greek -- Epilogue on historical linguistics.

Subjects

17.01 linguistics: general Analyse linguistique Analyse linguistique (Linguistique) Aufsatzsammlung Geschichte Grammaire comparée et générale Historical linguistics Linguistic analysis (Linguistics) Linguistik Linguistique historique Taalvariatie Taalverandering Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft