Creation and tradition in language

Author(s)

• Maher, J. Peter (John Peter)

Bibliographic Information

Creation and tradition in language

J. Peter Maher

（Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science, Series IV . Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 3 . Papers on language theory and history ; v. 1）

J. Benjamins, 1977

• : [set]

Note

"Publications by J. Peter Maher": p. [160]-162

Includes bibliographies and indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

: [set] ISBN 9789027209016

Description

This volume reflects the fact that the possibilities in theory construction allow for a much wider spectrum than students of linguistics have perhaps been led to believe. It consists of articles by scholars of differing generations and widely varying academic persuasions: some have received their initiation to the trade within the framework of transformational-generative grammar, some in one or the other structuralist mould, yet others in the philology and linguistics of particular languages and language families. They all share, however, some doubts concerning characteristic attitudes and procedures of present-day 'mainstream linguistics'. All want, not a uniformity of ideological stance, but a union of individualists working towards the advancement of theory and empirical accountability.

Volume

ISBN 9789027209047

Description

Interest in word-meaning is on the increase among mainstream linguists again after a half-century of neglect. During this interval progress in phonology and syntax was great, but further progress in these sub-disciplines will remain blocked until it is recognized that the prime functional unit of speech is the word, that the central problem of language theory is lexis. Word-meaning is typically complicated by changes across time; for a theory of language creativity, these effects must be discerned from spontaneous creation. The articles brought together in this volume attempt to illuminate, on the basis of particular lexical studies, the dynamics of perception and word-meaning, of language and mind.

Table of Contents

• 1. Ackonwledgements
• 2. Preface
• 3. Foreword by Raimo Anttila
• 4. Papers on language theory and history I
• 5. The paradox of creation and tradition in grammar: Sound pattern of a palimpsest (1969)
• 6. Italian mostaccio (1971)
• 7. Etymology and generative phonology in traditional lexicon: A study of Latin aqua "water", aquila "eagle", aquilus "dark", and aquilo "northwind" (1971)
• 8. The linguistic paleontology of some pre-christian burial terms in Slavic lexicon (1973)
• 9. *Haekmon: "(Stone) Axe" and "Sky" in I-E / Battle-axe culture (1973)
• 10. The ethnonym of the Slaves - Common Slavic *slovene (1974)
• 11. Phonetic law and suppletion in the history of the paradigm of the Slavic ethnica in -jane (1969)
• 12. Neglected reflexes of Proto-Indo-European *pet- "fly": Greek petros "stone" / petra "cliff" (1973)
• 13. The situational motivation of syntax and the syntactic motivation of polysemy and semantic change: Spanish-Italian bravo, etc. (1975)
• 14. Addendum
• 15. Publications by J. Peter Maher (1966-1976) (by Koerner, E.F.K.)
• 16. Index of names
• 17. Index of subjects and terms

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA06523264
• ISBN:
  • 9027209014
  • 9027209049
• LCCN: 78315893
• Country Code: ne
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Amsterdam
• Pages/Volumes: xx, 171 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : P27
  • DC19 : 410
  • NDC7 : 801.2
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Linguistics -- Collected works
  • LCSH : Language and languages -- Collected works
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA0036280X