The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Analysis

This handbook compares the main analytic frameworks and methods of contemporary linguistics. It offers a unique overview of linguistic theory, revealing the common concerns of competing approaches. By showing their current and potential applications it provides the means by which linguists and others can judge what are the most useful models for the task in hand. Distinguished scholars from all over the world explain the rationale and aims of over thirty explanatory approaches to the description, analysis, and understanding of language. Each chapter considers the main goals of the model; the relation it proposes between lexicon, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and phonology; the way it defines the interaction between cognition and grammar; what it counts as evidence; and how it explains linguistic change and structure.

1 - Introduction
2 - An Adaptive Approach to Grammar
3 - The Cartography of Syntactic Structures
4 - Categorial Grammar
5 - Cognitive Grammar
6 - Embodied Construction Grammar
7 - Sign-Based Construction Grammar
8 - Corpus-Based and Corpus-Driven Analyses of Language Variation and Use
9 - Default Semantics
10 - Dependency Grammar and Valency Theory
11 - An Emergentist Approach to Syntax
12 - Formal Generative Typology
13 - A Frames Approach to Semantic Analysis
14 - Framework-Free Grammatical Theory
15 - Functional Discourse Grammar
16 - Grammaticalization
17 - Lexical-Functional Grammar
18 - The Natural Semantic Metalanguage Approach to Linguistic Analysis
19 - Minimalist Linguistics
20 - Morphological Analysis
21 - Optimality Theory in Phonology
22 - Optimization Principles in the Typology of Number and Articles
23 - The Parallel Architecture and its Place in Cognitive Science
24 - Neo-Gricean Pragmatic Theory of Conversational Implicature
25 - Probabilistic Linguistics
26 - Linguistic Relativity
27 - Relevance Theory
28 - Role and Reference Grammar as a Framework for Linguistic Analysis
29 - The Analysis of Signed Languages
30 - Simpler Syntax
31 - Systemic Functional Grammar and the Study of Meaning
32 - Usage-Based Theory
33 - Word Grammar

Bernd Heine is Emeritus Professor at the Institute of African Studies (Institut für Afrikanistik), University of Cologne. His thirty three books include Possession: Cognitive sources, forces, and grammaticalization (CUP, 1997); Auxiliaries: Cognitive forces and grammaticalization (OUP, 1993); Cognitive Foundations of Grammar (OUP USA, 1997); with Derek Nurse, African Languages: An introduction (CUP, 2000), A Linguistic Geography of Africa (CUP, 2007); and with Tania Kuteva, World Lexicon of Grammaticalization (CUP, 2002), Language Contact and Grammatical Change (CUP, 2005), The Changing Languages of Europe (OUP, 2006). Heiko Narrog is Associate Professor at the Graduate School of International Cultural Studies of Tohoku University. He holds two PhDs in linguistics in Germany and Japan, and his publications include Japanische Verbflexive und flektierbare Suffixe (Harrassowitz 1999) as well as numerous articles in linguistic typology, semantics and language change, and Japanese linguistics. He is currently involved in a typological project on semantic maps and is preparing the publication of a book on modality and the hierarchy of functional categories.