Essays on time-based linguistic analysis
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Essays on time-based linguistic analysis
Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1996
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Collection of previously published material
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- 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, with the pragmatic principle of reading between the lines in the presence of marked usages
- What grammarians haven't been doing right, or, Unriddling analytical paradoxes
- Old and new views on language history and language relationships
- Reconstructing language development: two principles of change
- A note on ξ as "ss" (š:) and a ruki-rule in ancient Greek
- Epilogue on historical linguistics
