Oxford University Press Inc, 2010. — 1048 pages.This handbook compares the main analytic frameworks and methods of contemporary linguistics. It offers a unique overview of linguistic theory, revealing the common concerns of competing approaches. By showing their current and potential applications it provides the means by which linguists and others can judge what are the most useful models for the task in hand.Distinguished scholars from all over the world explain the rationale and aims of over thirty explanatory approaches to the description, analysis, and understanding of language. Each chapter considers the main goals of the model; the relation it proposes between lexicon, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and phonology; the way it defines the interaction between cognition and grammar; what it counts as evidence; and how it explains linguistic change and structure.Introduction /Bernd Heine and Heiko Narrog
The Adaptive Approach to Grammar /T. Givón
The Cartography of Syntactic Structures /Guglielmo Cinque and Luigi Rizzi
Categorial Grammar /Glyn Morrill
Cognitive Grammar /Ronald W. Langacker
Embodied Construction Grammar /Jerome Feldman, Ellen Dodge and John Bryant
Sign-Based Construction Grammar /Laura A. Michaelis
Corpus-Based and Corpus-Driven Analyses of Language Variation and Use /Douglas Biber
Default Semantics /Kasia M. Jaszczolt
Dependency Grammar and Valency Theory /Vilmos Ágel and Klaus Fischer
An Emergentist Approach to Syntax /William O’Grady
Formal Generative Typology /Mark C. Baker
A Frames Approach to Semantic Analysis /Charles J. Fillmore and Collin Baker
Framework-Free Grammatical Theory /Martin Haspelmath
Functional Discourse Grammar /Kees Hengeveld and J. Lachlan Mackenzie
Grammaticalization and Linguistic Analysis /Bernd Heine and Heiko Narrog
Lexical-Functional Grammar /Ash Asudeh and Ida Toivonen
The Natural Semantic Metalanguage Approach /Cliff Goddard
Linguistic Minimalism /Cedric Boeckx
Morphological Analysis /Geert E. Booij
Optimality Theory in Phonology /Maria Gouskova
Optimization Principles in the Typology of Number and Articles /Henriëtte de Swart and Joost Zwarts
The Parallel Architecture and its Place in Cognitive Science /Ray Jackendoff
Neo-Gricean Pragmatic Theory of Conversational Implicature /Yan Huang
Probabilistic Linguistics /Rens Bod
Linguistic Relativity /Eric Pederson
Relevance Theory /Francisco Yus
Role and Reference Grammar as a Framework for Linguistic Analysis /Robert D. Van Valin, Jr.
The Analysis of Signed Languages /Sherman Wilcox and Phyllis Perrin Wilcox
Simpler Syntax /Peter W. Culicover
Systemic Functional Grammar and the Study of Meaning /Alice Caffarel
Usage-Based Theory /Joan L. Bybee and Clay Beckner
Word Grammar /Richard Hudson
