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Investigations of explanatory strategies in linguistics / Lukás Zámecník.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zámecník, Lukáš, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Explanation (Linguistics).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (298 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin, Germany : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2023]
- Summary:
- Linguistic theories often suffer from the dilemma that their explanatory power is based on extra-linguistic assumptions. The book delineates the essence of linguistic theory and linguistic explanation and, in doing so, proposes a solution to the dilemma. Simultaneously, the book is one of the first attempts to profile the philosophy of linguistics as a distinct sub-discipline of the contemporary philosophy of science.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Foreword
- Contents
- 1 Resolving the dilemma
- 2 Philosophy of scientific explanation
- 3 Systemic explanation in linguistics
- 4 Formal explanation in linguistics
- 5 Functional explanation in quantitative linguistics
- 6 Conclusion
- Appendix
- References
- Persons index
- Subject index.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 3-11-071275-X
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