Neo-Firthian Approaches to Linguistic Typology

Name: Neo-Firthian Approaches to Linguistic Typology
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William B. McGregor

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Equinox Publishing Ltd
29 September 2021

Usage & grammar guides; linguistics

Series: Key Concepts in Systemic Functional Linguistics

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.

By: William B. McGregor
Imprint: Equinox Publishing Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9781781796665
ISBN 10: 1781796661
Series: Key Concepts in Systemic Functional Linguistics
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 29 September 2021
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Preface 1 Introduction 2 Grammatical Relations and Transitivity 3 The Noun Phrase 4 Complex Sentence Constructions 5 Optional Case Marking 6 Verb Classification 7 Conclusions

William B. McGregor is Professor of Linguistics at Aarhus University. He is the author of a number of publications including most recently, Linguistics: An Introduction (2nd edition) published by Bloomsbury in 2015.