Refurbishing our foundations : elementary linguistics from an advanced point of view / C.F. Hockett.

This essay challenges several patterns of thinking common in twentieth-century linguistics. The most pervasive of these is our habit of looking at language from the point of view of the speaker. When we take, instead, that of the hearer, matters fall into place in a new way. In syntax, we are led to...

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Main Author: Hockett, Charles Francis
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, 1987.
Series:Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 56.
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