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Framework-free grammatical theory
Haspelmath, Martin
Framework-free grammatical description/analysis and explanation is argued here to be superior to framework-bound analysis because all languages have different catgeories, and languages should be described in their own terms. Frameworks represent aprioristic assumptions that are likely to lead to a distorted description of a language. I argue against restrictive theoretical frameworks of the generative type, against frameworks of functional approaches such as Functional Grammar and Role and Reference Grammar, and against Basic Linguistic Theory.
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- Publication date:
- January 1, 2010
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- Keyword(s):
- grammar, theoretical linguistics, linguistic framework, generative grammar
- Published in:
- The Oxford handbook of linguistic analysis, edited by Bernd Heine & Heiko Narrog, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 341-365.
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- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0