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Problems of Theoretical Linguistics
1973Publisher Summary This chapter discusses problems of theoretical linguistics. In discussing problems of a science one has to be selective, by necessity. The selection is, furthermore, always biased by subjective evaluation and by the historical and social factors determining the status of that science. The first of the four problems discussed relates
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Papers in Theoretical Linguistics
1992This volume contains eight papers by the late Niels Danielsen, Danish linguist and philologist, and serves as a fine introduction to this theory of linguistic universality. The papers highlight the most important universals introduced by him, such as Linguistic Polarity, the Constitutional Axis of Language, the Verbal Nuclei, the Nomic Structure of ...
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Incorporating theoretical linguistic insights
1994This chapter describes some general properties of the syntax, sketches analyses of several constructions, and indicates how these relate to analyses of the same (or similar) constructions in more theoretically oriented approaches. Furthermore, it will show that the method of compositional translation combined with language-specific transformations ...
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Austronesian and Theoretical Linguistics
2010The Austronesian language family is the largest language family in the world, yet its members are relatively little studied, particularly from a formal perspective. Interestingly, because these languages exhibit typologically unusual properties, they pose important challenges to linguistic theory.
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Theoretical Issues in Contrastive Linguistics
1981Contrastive Linguistics, roughly defined as a subdiscipline of linguistics which is concerned with the comparison of two or more (subsystems of) languages, has long been associated primarily with language teaching. Apart from this applied aspect, however, it also has a strong theoretical purpose, contributing to our understanding of language typology ...
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Corpus linguistics and theoretical linguistics
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Historiography’s contribution to theoretical linguistics
2010Given the rich, multidisciplinary developments that have influenced linguistic theory and practice over the past fifty years, we historiographers are uniquely positioned to provide some much needed theoretical integration for the discipline in these post-Chomskyan times.
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