History of linguistics 2008 : selected papers from the 11th International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHOLS XI), Potsdam, 28 August-2 September 2008 / edited by Gerda Hassler ; with the assistance of Gesina Volkmann.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences, Corporate Author.

Contributor:

Hassler, Gerda.

Volkmann, Gesina.

Conference Name:

International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (11th : 2008 : Potsdam, Germany)

International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences

Series:

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Studies in the history of the language sciences ; Series III, v. 115.

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series III, Studies in the history of the language sciences ; v. 115

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Linguistics--History--Congresses.

Linguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (484 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia [Pa.] : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This paper aims at presenting Harris' use of information theory as a specific case of transfer of mathematical concepts and methods into linguistics. First, it will show that distributional analysis had characteristics which made it particu­larly receptive to some aspects of information theory, such as the special status of repe­tition and the treatment of linguistic elements as physical events. Second, this paper will show how Harris gradually incorporated the notions of information theory and methods to address new issues in his own theory: from the identification and classi­fication of linguistic units to the analysis of redundant patterns in utterances and in discourses, and finally to the ultimate objective of developing an information grammar for the sublanguages of sciences. Thus, infor­mation, at first a pure quan­titative entity, underwent a semantic turn when Harris adapted it for linguistic ob­jec­tives.

Contents:

pt. 1. Methodological considerations, linguistics and philology

pt. 2. Antiquity

pt. 3. Renaissance linguistics

pt. 4. Seventeenth and eighteenth century

pt. 5. Nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

90-272-8717-1

9786613059413

1-283-05941-X

OCLC:

726828718