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 from between lexicon, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and phonology; the way it defines the interactions between cognition and grammar; what it counts as evidence; and how it explains linguistic change and structure. The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Analysis offers an indispensable guide for everyone researching any aspect of language including those in linguistics, comparative philology, cognitive science, developmental philology, cognitive science, developmental psychology, computational science, and artificial intelligence. This second edition has been updated to include seven new chapters looking at linguistic units in language acquisition, conversation analysis, neurolinguistics, experimental phonetics, phonological analysis, experimental semantics, and distributional typology.

1 - Introduction
2 - Linguistic Units in Language Acquisition
3 - The Adaptive Approach to Grammar
4 - The Cartography of Syntactic Structures
5 - Categorial Grammar
6 - Cognitive Grammar
7 - Embodied Construction Grammar
8 - Sign-Based Construction Grammar
9 - Conversation Analysis
10 - Corpus-Based and Corpus-Driven Analyses of Language Variation and U
11 - Dependency Grammar and Valency Theory
12 - An Emergentist Approach to Syntax
13 - Framework-Free Grammatical Theory
14 - Functional Discourse Grammar
15 - Systemic Functional Grammar and the Study of Meaning
16 - Lexical-Functional Grammar
17 - Grammaticalization and Linguistic Analysis
18 - Linguistic Minimalism
19 - Morphological Analysis
20 - Neurolinguistics: A Cooperative Computation Perspective
21 - Experimental Phonetics
22 - Phonological Analysis
23 - Optimality Theory in Phonology
24 - Optimization Principles in the Typology of Number and Articles
25 - The Parallel Architecture and its Place in Cognitive Scienc
26 - Neo-Gricean Pragmatic Theory of Conversational Implicature
27 - Relevance Theory
28 - Probabilistic Linguistics
29 - Linguistic Relativity
30 - Role and Reference Grammar as a Framework for Linguistic Analysis
31 - Default Semantics
32 - Experimental Semantic
33 - A Frames Approach to Semantic Analysis
34 - The Natural Semantic Metalanguage Approach
35 - The Analysis of Signed Languages
36 - Simpler Syntax
37 - Distributional Typology: Statistical Inquiries into the Dynamics of Linguistic Diversity
38 - Formal Generative Typology
39 - Usage-Based Theory
40 - Word Grammar

Bernd Heine is Emeritus Professor at the Institute of African Studies (Institut f"ur Afrikanistik), University of Cologne. His many publications include 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, The Changing Languages of Europe (OUP, 2006), and The Genesis of Grammar: A Reconstruction (OUP, 2007). He is the co-editor, along with Heiko Narrog, of The Oxford Handbook of Grammaticalization 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) and Modality, Subjectivity, and Semantic Change (OUP, 2012), as well as numerous articles in linguistic typology, semantics and language change, and Japanese linguistics.