Language Structure and Environment
Social, cultural, and natural factors
Editors
| National Chengchi University, Taiwan
| Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Language Structure and Environment is a broad introduction to how languages are shaped by their environment. It makes the argument that the social, cultural, and natural environment of speakers influences the structures and development of the languages they speak. After a general overview, the contributors explain in a number of detailed case studies how specific cultural, societal, geographical, evolutionary and meta-linguistic pressures determine the development of specific grammatical features and the global structure of a varied selection of languages. This is a work of meticulous scholarship at the forefront of a burgeoning field of linguistics.
[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 6] 2015. vi, 370 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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1–28
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Grammar and culture
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31–44
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45–76
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77–98
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99–130
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Grammar and society
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133–148
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149–176
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Grammar and geography
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177–226
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227–260
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261–286
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Grammar and evolution
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289–316
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Grammar and the field of linguistics
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319–352
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Subjects and Languages Index
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353–366
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Author Index
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367–370
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Greenhill, Simon J.
2016. Overview: Debating the effect of environment on language.
Journal of Language Evolution 1:1 ► pp. 30 ff.
LaPolla, Randy J.
2016. Review of Evans (2014): The language myth: Why language is not an instinct.
Studies in Language 40:1 ► pp. 235 ff.
Ono, Tsuyoshi & Sandra Thompson
2017. Negative scope, temporality, fixedness, and right- and left-branching.
Studies in Language 41:3 ► pp. 543 ff.
Ye, Zhengdao
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Subjects
Linguistics
BIC Subject: CFK – Grammar, syntax
BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General