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- catalog abstract "Meanings of cultural importance are found not only in words but also in the very grammar of a language. This exciting collection presents eleven original studies of the relationship between grammar, culture, and cognition, with data from languages and cultures from around the world. Contributors discuss a wide variety of grammatical phenomena. This book shows that the study of culture can help to understand how and why languages differ in the ways they do.".
- catalog contributor b12580991.
- catalog created "2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2002.".
- catalog description "Ethnosyntax : introduction / N.J. Enfield -- Syntactic enquiry as a cultural activity / Anthony V.N. Diller and Wilaiwan Khanittanan -- Ethnosyntax, ethnopragmatics, sign-functions, and culture / Cliff Goddard -- Culture, cognition, and the grammar of "give" clauses / John Newman -- Masculine and feminine in the northern Iriquoian languages / Wallace Chafe -- Using he and she for inanimate referents in English : questions of grammar and world view / Andrew Pawley -- A study in unified diversity : English and Mixtec locatives / Ronald W. Langacker -- English causative constructions in an ethnosyntactic perspective : focusing on let / Anna Wierzbicka -- Changes within Pennsylvania German grammar as enactments of anabaptist world view / Kate Burridge -- Cultural logic and syntactic productivity : associated posture constructions in Lao / N.J. Enfield -- Aspects of Ku Waru ethnosyntax and social life / Alan Rumsey -- From common ground to syntactic construction : associated path in Warlpiri / Jane Simpson.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and indexes.".
- catalog description "Meanings of cultural importance are found not only in words but also in the very grammar of a language. This exciting collection presents eleven original studies of the relationship between grammar, culture, and cognition, with data from languages and cultures from around the world. Contributors discuss a wide variety of grammatical phenomena. This book shows that the study of culture can help to understand how and why languages differ in the ways they do.".
- catalog extent "ix, 325 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0199249067".
- catalog isPartOf "[Oxford linguistics]".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog subject "306.44 21".
- catalog subject "Cognition and culture.".
- catalog subject "Grammar, Comparative and general.".
- catalog subject "Language and culture.".
- catalog subject "P35 .E876 2002".
- catalog tableOfContents "Ethnosyntax : introduction / N.J. Enfield -- Syntactic enquiry as a cultural activity / Anthony V.N. Diller and Wilaiwan Khanittanan -- Ethnosyntax, ethnopragmatics, sign-functions, and culture / Cliff Goddard -- Culture, cognition, and the grammar of "give" clauses / John Newman -- Masculine and feminine in the northern Iriquoian languages / Wallace Chafe -- Using he and she for inanimate referents in English : questions of grammar and world view / Andrew Pawley -- A study in unified diversity : English and Mixtec locatives / Ronald W. Langacker -- English causative constructions in an ethnosyntactic perspective : focusing on let / Anna Wierzbicka -- Changes within Pennsylvania German grammar as enactments of anabaptist world view / Kate Burridge -- Cultural logic and syntactic productivity : associated posture constructions in Lao / N.J. Enfield -- Aspects of Ku Waru ethnosyntax and social life / Alan Rumsey -- From common ground to syntactic construction : associated path in Warlpiri / Jane Simpson.".
- catalog title "Ethnosyntax : explorations in grammar and culture / edited by N.J. Enfield.".
- catalog type "text".