Form and Formalism in Linguistics

by James McElvenny

"Form" and "formalism" are a pair of highly productive and polysemous terms that occupy a central place in much linguistic scholarship. Diverse notions of "form" - embedded in biological, cognitive and aesthetic discourses - have been employed in accounts of language structure and relationship, while "formalism" harbours a family of senses referring to particular approaches to the study of language as well as representations of linguistic phenomena...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1013293398
• ISBN13: 9781013293399
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Saint Philip Street Press
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 2.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.5" x 11.0"