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Essays on time-based linguistic analysis
1 online resource (423 pages): illustrations (black and white).
This is a collection of Professor Bailey's writings on linguistic theory. The author argues for a theory which is time-based, and against the prevailing synchronic approach in linguistic theory. Previously published papers have been revised and updated.
Variation theory and so-called sociolinguistic grammars -- Theory, description, and what keeps linguistics from becoming a science -- Conceptualizing dialects as implicational constellations rather than as entities bounded by isoglossic bundles -- Reversals in marked categories and contexts -- What grammarians haven't been doing right, or, Unriddling analytical paradoxes -- Old and new views on language history and language relationships -- Reconstructing language development -- A note on [x], [ss], and a ruki-rule in ancient Greek -- Epilogue on historical linguistics.
Charles-James N. Bailey ; with an introduction by Peter Mühlhäusler.
Bibliography: p379-403. - Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [379]-403) and index.