The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Analysis

Bernd Heine is Emeritus Professor at the Institute of African Studies (Institut für 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 GrammaticalizationHeiko 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.

• 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

`Review from previous edition this handbook is without an equal ... the breadth offered by the 33 chapters is breathtaking.'Werner Abraham, STUF - Language Typology and Universals