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Croft, William Albert was born on November 13, 1956 in San Francisco, California, United States. Son of Donald Judson Croft.
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This book is based on the results of research in language typology, and motivated by the need for a theory to explain them. Croft proposes intimate links between syntactic and semantic structures, and argues that the basic elements of any language are not syntactic but rather syntactic-semantic "Gestalts." He puts forward a new approach to syntactic representation and a new model of how language and languages work.
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Comparison of the grammars of human languages reveals systematic patterns of variation. Research in typology and universals attempts to uncover those patterns, to formulate the universal constraints on language that define those patterns, and to seek explanations for the universals. In this volume, the first of its kind, William Croft provides the reader with a comprehensive introduction to the method and theory used in typology-universals research, together with an overview of basic grammatical differences between languages. He discusses theoretical issues ranging from the most fundamental - on what basis can the grammars of diverse languages be compared? - to the most abstract - what is the role of functional and historical explanation of language universals? - and gives extensive illustration from the world's languages. Numerous case studies provide extended examples of the methodologies applied to specific problems. As well as explicating basic concepts established in the last thirty years, current areas of typological research are thoroughly covered (including diachronic typology and the functional-typological approach). This textbook will appeal to scholars and students alike in linguistics and anthropology.
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Explaining Language Change presents the first integrated theory of all aspects of language change which builds on the pioneering ideas of Richard Dawkins and David Hull in biology and philosophy of science.
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Croft, William Albert was born on November 13, 1956 in San Francisco, California, United States. Son of Donald Judson Croft.
Doctor of Philosophy, Stanford University, Stanford, California, 1982—1986.
From 1994 to 2005 he was successively research fellow, lecturer, reader and professor in Linguistics at the University of Manchester, United Kingdom. He is inventor of and advocate for radical construction grammar, which among other things uses box-diagrams to compare and contrast the grammatical features of different natural languages. He is considered an influential scholar in the fields of functional and cognitive linguistics.
( Explaining Language Change presents the first integrat...)
(This book is based on the results of research in language...)
(Comparison of the grammars of human languages reveals sys...)
Councillor Save-the-Redwoods League, San Francisco, 1987. Member of The Philol Association, Linguistic Association of Great Britain, Linguistic Society of America.
Married Carol Grace Toffaleti, June 25, 1983.
