Linguistic Structures and Linguistic Laws.

This monograph has as its objective to give a critical survey of the development of the theories concerning the essence, the function, and the most characteristic (determining) features of language, and to explore and evaluate the motive forces responsible for this development. The author explains m...

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Main Author: Kovacs, Ferenc
Other Authors: Simon, Sandor
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1971.
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Summary:This monograph has as its objective to give a critical survey of the development of the theories concerning the essence, the function, and the most characteristic (determining) features of language, and to explore and evaluate the motive forces responsible for this development. The author explains mainly the progressive elements of the theoretical foundations and methodological procedures of different times and schools (trends), and places them in the process which presents the course of development of linguistic theory as an organic whole. He deals in detail with the foreign (mainly American).
Physical Description:1 online resource (398 pages)
ISBN:9789027272676
9027272670
9789060324929
9060324927
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.