Cognitive Foundations of Grammar

by Bernd Heine

Book Overview

The main function of language is to convey meaning. Therefore, argues Bernd Heine in these pages, the question of why language is structured the way it is must first of all be answered with reference to this function. Linguistic explanations offered in terms of other exponents of language structure (for example, syntax) are likely to highlight peripheral or epi-phenomenal--rather than central--characteristics of language structure. Heine provides...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195102525
• ISBN13: 9780195102529
• Release Date: November 1997
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 2.8" x 11.7"