语法学

书籍目录

Preface
Author's Introduction
  SECTION I
  Survey
1 What is grammar?
  What is grammar for?
  Language without grammar
  Problems
  Solving the problems
2  From simplicity to complexity: word classes and structures
  Word classes
  Code and message: from words to phrases
  Clauses
  Subjects and objects
  Mood
  Analysing phrases and clauses
  Clauses iide clauses
  The units of language
3  Grammar In the world's languages
  Word classes
  Structural types
  Morphological complexity
  Agreement
  Meanings
  Why is everything so complicated ?
4  Grammar and vocabulary
  How different are grammar and vocabulary?
  The grammar of words
  On the frontier
  Language in use: chunking
  A continuum
5  Grammar In spoken and written text
  Speech and writing
  Building phrases, clauses, and utterances
  Reference and context
  'Given' and 'new': information flow and topic-maintenance
  Text structuring
  Face
  Formal and informal language
  Special kinds of text
6  Grammar and language change
  1,ooo yea of change in English
  Mechanisms of change
  Analogy
  Phonetic erosion
  Grammaticalization
  Speed of change
  How did it all start?
7  Grammar in society: 'correctness' and standardization
  Language under attack
  What do we mean by 'incorrect'?
  Mistakes
  Variation
  Dialect forms
  Alternative usage
  Authorities: descriptive and prescriptive rules
  Problems with prescriptive rules
  Ripples on the ocean
  The desire for standardization
  The price of standardization
8  Grammar In the head
  Investigating language
  From outside to iide
  Learnability and univeal grammar
  Problems with the innatist view
  Usage-based associative learning
  Modularity: grammar in the brain
  SECTION 2
  Readings
  SECTION 3
  References
  SECTION 4
  Glossary
  ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

作者简介

《语法学》，本书为“牛津语言学入门丛书”之一，本书向读者介绍了有关语法学的概论，并回答了语法是什么，语法如何与词汇联系在一起，语法是怎么演变的，什么是正确的语法等有趣的问题。

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