Grammar West to East : The Investigation of Linguistic Meaning in European and Chinese Traditions / by Edward McDonald.
This book compares the historical development of ideas about language in two major traditions of linguistic scholarship from either end of Eurasia - the Graeco-Roman and the Sinitic - as well as their interaction in the modern era. It locates the emergence of language analysis in the development of...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Singapore :
Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer,
2020.
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| Edition: | First edition 2020. |
| Series: | The M.A.K. Halliday Library Functional Linguistics Series,.
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| Online Access: | Springer Humanities and Social Science eBook Collection 2020 English/International |
| Summary: | This book compares the historical development of ideas about language in two major traditions of linguistic scholarship from either end of Eurasia - the Graeco-Roman and the Sinitic - as well as their interaction in the modern era. It locates the emergence of language analysis in the development of writing systems, and examines the cultural and political functions fulfilled by traditional language scholarship. Moving into the modern period and focusing specifically on the study of "grammar" in the sense of morph syntax/ lexico grammar, it traces the transformation of "traditional" Latin grammar from the viewpoint of its adaptation to Chinese, and discusses the development of key concepts used to characterize and analyze grammatical patterns. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xx, 275 pages 12 illus). |
| ISBN: | 981137595X 9789811375958 9811375976 9789811375972 |