Grammar West to East: The Investigation of Linguistic Meaning in European and Chinese Traditions

By Edward McDonald

Acknowledgments.- Briefing Key issues and organisational features of this book.- Prelude Framing the problem of language and meaning.- Part I Traditions of language study: Graeco-Roman vis-?-vis Sinitic.- Chapter 1 Language, writing and metaphors for language.- Snapshot 1 Dialectic; Analogy v. anomaly.- Chapter 2 Language in education and the foundations of linguistic scholarship.- Snapshot 2 Ordering of words; Language as manifestation of the way.- Chapter 3 The discovery of language history.- Snapshot 3 Characters and order of universe; Grammatical form as expression of mind.- Chapter 4 From philology to linguistics.- Interlude Establishing a modern paradigm.- Part II The making of modern grammatics: developing tools for the analysis of wording.- Chapter 5 From "(single) articulation" to "double articulation" meaning ↔ wording ↔ sound.- Chapter 6 "Parts of speech" and "word classes" defining basic categories for grammatical analysis.- Chapter 7 "Word grammar" and "clause grammar" separating morphological from syntactic patterning.- Chapter 8 Syntagmatic and paradigmatic relations: structure and system.- Postlude The long 20th century of linguistics.- Debriefing The history of linguistics and the study of language.- References.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 981137595X
• ISBN13: 9789811375958
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 275 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"