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The perceptive reader will recognize that the title of this book imitates and complements that of another. It is Alexandra Aikhenvald's The Art of Grammar: A Practical Guide (2015), a classic study, which was the stimulus for the present collection of examinations of language at large, and of reflection on what linguists do. Her introduction to descriptive linguistics was the focal inspiration for this volume. It is a text on linguistics that invites the reader to engage with language in a special way: like much of Aikhenvald's work, The Art of Grammar offers numerous approaches to her topic that reach way beyond conventional methodologies which tend to see language as a self-contained entry, static and self-serving. Reflecting on why a language is the way it is, Alexandra Aikhenvald (2015: 303

Author

Angeliki Alvanoudi

Publisher

Brill Academic Pub

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9789004510395

Subjects

Linguistics, Language Learning, Literary Fiction