Prospects for a new structuralism
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Prospects for a new structuralism
（Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science, Series IV . Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 96）
J. Benjamins, 1992
- : us
- : eur
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This volume, which has partly grown from a Round Table at the XIVth International Congress of Linguists, argues for a large amount of underlying unity in outlook among different frameworks in present-day linguistics: the contemporary Prague School; the Noematic approach; the UNITYP model; Integrational Linguistics; Natural Morphology; much recent work in phonology; and Popperian Interactionism as applied, in particular, to historical linguistics. Section I discusses philosophical issues such as realism vs. cognitivism; Section II characterizes current frameworks; and Section III deals with individual linguistic areas like phonology. Leading representatives of the various approaches are shown to agree in subscribing to most if not all of nine 'Principles of New Structuralism' that combine ontological realism with non-cognitivist mentalism. These principles define a position that is structuralist in a novel sense and appears to be partly represented also in approaches such as Katzian 'Platonism' and Searle's intentionalism; it should be compatible with frameworks like GPSG. There are definite historical connections with European structuralism. The position is incompatible with current cognitivism of the 'mechanism' type but otherwise bridges traditional oppositions such as the dichotomy of generative vs. non-generative frameworks.
Table of Contents
- 1. Foreword
- 2. Prospects for a new structuralism: introduction (by Lieb, Hans-Heinrich)
- 3. I. Philosophical issues
- 4. An interactionist position (by Carr, Philip)
- 5. The case for a new structuralism (by Lieb, Hans-Heinrich)
- 6. II. Frameworks
- 7. Classical structuralism and present-day Praguian linguistics (by Sgall, Petr)
- 8. Noematic grammar (by Heger, Klaus)
- 9. The functional model of UNITYP dimensions (by Seiler, Hansjakob)
- 10. Intergrational linguistics:: outline of a theory of language (by Lieb, Hans-Heinrich)
- 11. III. Areas
- 12. A new structuralism in phonology (by Banczerowski, Jerzy)
- 13. The structuralist heritage in natural Morphology (by Wurzel, Wolfgang Ullrich)
- 14. What are language histories histories of? (by Lass, Roger)
- 15. Index of names
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