Ethnosyntax : explorations in grammar and culture / edited by N.J. Enfield.
"Meanings of cultural importance are found not only in words but also in the very grammar of a language. This exciting collection presents eleven original studies of the relationship between grammar, culture, and cognition, with data from languages and cultures from around the world. Contributo...
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Oxford ; New York :
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2002.
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Table of Contents:
- Pt. I. Ethnosyntax : theory and scope
- 1. Ethnosyntax : introduction / N. J. Enfield
- 2. Syntactic enquiry as a cultural activity / Anthony V. N. Diller and Wilaiwan Khanittanan
- 3. Ethnosyntax, ethnopragmatics, sign-functions, and culture / Cliff Goddard
- 4. Culture, cognition, and the grammar of 'give' clauses / John Newman
- Pt. II. Culture, semantics, and grammar
- 5. Masculine and feminine in the Northern Iroquoian languages / Wallace Chafe
- 6. Using he and she for inanimate referents in English : questions of grammar and world view / Andrew Pawley
- 7. A study in unified diversity : English and Mixtec locatives / Ronald W. Langacker
- 8. English causative constructions in an ethnosyntactic perspective : focusing on let / Anna Wierzbicka
- Pt. III. Culture, pragmatics, and grammaticalization
- 9. Changes within Pennsylvania German grammar as enactments of Anabaptist world view / Kate Burridge
- 10. Cultural logic and syntactic productivity : associated posture constructions in Lao / N. J. Enfield
- 11. Aspects of Ku Waru ethnosyntax and social life / Alan Rumsey
- 12. From common ground to syntactic construction : associated path in Warlpiri / Jane Simpson.