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Discourse grammar and typology : papers in honor of John W.M. Verhaar
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ISBN: 9027230307 1556193793 9786613092625 128309262X 902728573X 9789027285737 9781556193798 9789027230300 Year: 1995 Volume: 27 Publisher: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia [Pa.] : J. Benjamins,

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This volume combines papers selected for their affinity with work on discourse analysis and language typology. The methodological platform is the authors' conviction that all linguistic work needs to be empirical in the sense that (1) generalizations are to be made on the basis of spoken texts in larger contexts, (2) generalizations are correct only as long as pertinent linguistic material does not contradict them, and (3) that linguistic categories and rules are of a temporal nature. In this sense, the contributions represent 'functional typological' comparison, often of languages not frequen

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