Hannes Kniffka: Indigenous Grammar Across Cultures

Indigenous Grammar Across Cultures


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This book deals with various indigenous traditions of grammatical thought across the globe. Its main perspective is a cross-cultural sociolinguistic and anthropological linguistic account of Indigenous Grammar. The concept (relating to Bruno Liebich's term 'Einheimische Grammatik') is taken in its widest sense here to account for a continua of forms and ways of language-oriented research, various degrees of systematic reflection on language structure and use, the culture-specific ingredients of different grammatical schools, linguistic and folk-linguistic speculation, language awareness, linguistic ideologies and similar endeavours. Some assumptions underlying the central hypotheses of this book are: - Linguistics, every grammatical description, has a strong cultural binding. - It is worthwhile to describe the culturally bound differences in a systematic fashion. - There are indigenous grammars and grammarians of entirely different denominations than what Western linguists are accustomed to dealing with. - A heuristic continua of indigenous grammar can be set up which is worth being studied by linguists in a cross-cultural comparative fashion.


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Author: Hannes Kniffka
Number of Pages: 637 pages
Published Date: 13 Sep 2001
Publisher: Peter Lang AG
Publication Country: Frankfurt a.M., Switzerland
Language: English
ISBN: 9783631385814
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