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Neo-Firthian Approaches to Linguistic Typology (Hardcover)
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Neo-Firthian Approaches to Linguistic Typology (Hardcover)
Series: Key Concepts in Systemic Functional Linguistics
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Neo-Firthian theories - which include Systemic Functional
Linguistics and its congeners - have, unlike other functionally
oriented theories, engaged minimally with linguistic typology and
have made little impact on the wider discipline. This book offers a
programmatic and Neo-Firthian informed typological investigation
that points to potential mutual enrichments of linguistic typology
and Neo-Firthian theories. On the one hand, this book identifies
the inadequacies of the dominant 'atheoretical' approaches to
linguistic typology, and shows how these can be circumvented
through a firm foundation in a Neo-Firthian theoretical framework.
On the other hand, it contends that Neo-Firthian approaches must
take typology seriously as a criterion of theoretical adequacy, and
be able to account for the full range of grammatical phenomena and
their variation across languages, as well as those features that
are universal. Case studies illustrate this argument through a
selection of grammatical phenomena - in particular, grammatical
relations, the noun phrase, complex sentence constructions,
optional case marking and grammatical classification. This book
will be of interest to typologists, and well as to linguistics
working within Systemic Functional Linguistics and other functional
theories.
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