Natural language and universal grammar /
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| Author / Creator: | Lyons, John, 1932-2020 |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1991. |
| Description: | xv, 290 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Essays in linguistic theory ; v. 1 Lyons, John, 1932- Essays in linguistic theory ; v. 1. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1295235 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Typographical conventions
- 1. Language, speech and writing
- 2. In defence of (so-called) autonomous linguistics
- 3. Linguistic theory and theoretical linguistics
- 4. Natural, non-natural and unnatural languages: English, Urdu and other abstractions
- 5. The origin of language, speech and languages
- 6. Phonemic and non-phonemic phonology: some typological reflections
- 7. Towards a 'notional' theory of the 'parts of speech'
- 8. Deixis as the source of reference
- 9. Deixis and anaphora
- Appendix: the scientific study of language
- Inaugural lecture, Edinburgh, 1965
- Notes
- References
- Subject index
- Names index