Essays on time-based linguistic analysis
By: Charles-James N. Bailey ; with an introduction by Peter Mühlhäusler.
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Oxford [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 423
Subjects: Linguistic analysis (Linguistics); Historical linguistics.
Description: The purpose of this volume is to make easily available a representative selection of Charles-James N. Bailey's views on linguistic theory. Several previously published papers have been extensively revised and updated for the collection, which also contains two new chapters. The collection is flanked by a new Prologue and Epilogue, and the whole is preceded by Peter Muhlhausler's Introduction which offers a critical appraisal of Professor Bailey's contribution to the field.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references  (p. [378-403) and index.
Collection of previously published material.
Table of contents: title: Variation theory and so-called sociolinguistic grammars; title: Theory, description, and what keeps linguistics from becoming a science; title: Conceptualizing dialects as implicational constellations rather than as entities bounded by isoglossic bundles; title: Reversals in marked categories and contexts; title: What grammarians haven't been doing right, or, Unriddling analytical paradoxes; title: Old and new views on language history and language relationships; title: Reconstructing language development; title: A note on [x], [ss], and a ruki-rule in ancient Greek; title: Epilogue on historical linguistics.