Prospects for a new structuralism / edited by Hans-Heinrich Lieb.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lieb, Hans-Heinrich.

Series:

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory ; Series IV, v. 96.

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, 0304-0763 ; v. 96

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Structural linguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (284 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1992.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 ind

Contents:

PROSPECTS FOR A NEW STRUCTURALISM; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Foreword; Table of contents; Prospects for a New Structuralism: Introduction; I. PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES; An Interactionist Position; The Case for a New Structuralism; II. FRAMEWORKS; Classical Structuralism and Present-day Praguian Linguistics; Noematic grammar; The Functional Model of UNITYP Dimensions; Integrational Linguistics: Outline of a Theory of Language; III. AREAS; A New Structuralism in Phonology; The Structuralist Heritage in Natural Morphology; What are Language Histories Histories of?; Index of Names

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-31317-0

9786613313171

90-272-7742-7

OCLC:

759101384