Table of Contents
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- Noun incorporation and the nature of linguistic representation
- Interaction between grammar and discourse in Chicheŵa (Bantu)
- The elusive figures of Burmese grammar: An essay
- A language which defies description by ordinary means
- The conceptual basis of grammatical relations
- The expanse of grammar in the "waste" of frames
- Culture and conversational inference
- Disjoint reference and pragmatic inference: Anaphora and switch reference in Northern Pomo
- Code, inference, placedness and ellipsis
- Meaning and pragmatics of order in selected South American Indian languages
- Theoretical implications of grammaticalization phenomena
- Grammar and polity: The cultural and political background to Standard Malay
- Diglossic grammaticality in Thai
- Language use and language development: Review of sociolinguistic theory
- Formalism, functionalism and the discourse of evolution
- Language Index
- Subject Index
Grammar and polity: The cultural and political background to Standard Malay
Benjamin, Geoffrey
Citation Information
The Role of Theory in Language Description
Edited by Foley, William A.
DE GRUYTER MOUTON
1993
Pages: 341-392
eBook ISBN: 9783110872835
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