Lorenzo Cigana University of Copenhagen (NorS) The aim of this outline contribution, which will receive a proper treatment elsewhere, is to describe a single piece within the broader mosaic of European Structuralism: an undercurrent of Danish structural linguistics focused on…
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The formalisation of grammatical meanings in Copenhagen structural linguistics. Some remarks.
Tagged with: formalisation, general linguistics, grammar, history of linguistics, history of structuralism, linguistic oppositions, morphology, structuralism
Posted in Article, Europe, Grammars, Linguistics, Structuralism
Posted in Article, Europe, Grammars, Linguistics, Structuralism
Le Formalisme russe dans l’histoire de la linguistique
Patrick Flack sdvig press Le Formalisme russe, à bien des égards, constitue un phénomène paradoxal. Il a, c’est bien connu, fourni les fondements d’une approche systématique de la littérature (ou du « langage poétique « ) et contribué à produire une grande partie…
Tagged with: 20th century, formalism, linguistique structurale, Roman Jakobson, Russian formalism, structuralism
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Posted in 20th century, Article, Europe, Structuralism
Saussure’s sound symbolism
John Joseph University of Edinburgh “The most celebrated opponent of the sound symbolic hypothesis,” writes Magnus (2013: 201), “was, of course, Ferdinand de Saussure”. Of course. One of Saussure’s key contributions to modern linguistics is the principle of the arbitrariness…
Tagged with: arbitrariness, Saussure, sound symbolism, structuralism
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Posted in 19th century, 20th century, Article, Europe, History, Linguistics, Structuralism
From Inductivism to Structuralism: the ‘method of residues’ goes to the field
Michael Silverstein University of Chicago It should be clear to anyone who surveys the historical record that the “discovery” of the phoneme – that is, the codification of phonological theory and method – was key in linguists’ consciousness of a…
Tagged with: Bauduoin de Courtenay, Bloomfield, Daniel Jones, field linguistics, history of linguistics, Jerzy Kuryƚowicz, Neogrammarians, phoneme, phonology, Roman Jakobson, Sapir, Saussure, structuralism, Trubetskoy
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Posted in 19th century, 20th century, America, Article, Europe, History, Linguistics, Structuralism
History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences 