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Essays on the Sound Pattern of English
Jan 1975
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This book is a collection of readings in phonological theory with special reference to English. The essays it contains are all concerned to a significant extent with discussion and criticism of the theory of phonology developed by Noam Chomsky and Morris Halle in their monograph The Sound Pattern of English. The aim in compiling this collection has been to bring together new papers and papers that were previously only available in informal duplicated form or in comparatively inaccessible publications. This collection is of value to anyone teaching or studying English or general linguistics who wishes to make a serious study of current phonological theory and serves as a reference anthology of permanent value to the specialist.
The Transformational-Generative Paradigm and Modern Linguistic Theory
Jan 1975
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This volume reflects the fact that the possibilities in theory construction allow for a much wider spectrum than students of linguistics have perhaps been led to believe. It consists of articles by scholars of differing generations and widely varying academic persuasions: some have received their initiation to the trade within the framework of transformational-generative grammar some in one or the other structuralist mould yet others in the philology and linguistics of particular languages and language families. They all share however some doubts concerning characteristic attitudes and procedures of present-day ‘mainstream linguistics’. All want not a uniformity of ideological stance but a union of individualists working towards the advancement of theory and empirical accountability.
Einleitung in die Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (1884–1890) together with Zur Literatur der Sprachenkunde Europas (Leipzig, 1887)
Jan 1974
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This volume contains August Friedrich Pott's Einleitung in de Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft which appeared between 1884 and 1890 in F. Techmer's Internationale Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (Leipzig). In addition the volume contains Pott's Zur Literatur der Sprachenkunde Europas (Leipzig 1887) the obituary by Paul Horn (Göttingen 1888) and a preface to this new edition by E.F.K. Koerner.
Linguistic Structures and Linguistic Laws
Dec 1971
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This monograph has as its objective to give a critical survey of the development of the theories concerning the essence the function and the most characteristic (determining) features of language and to explore and evaluate the motive forces responsible for this development. The author explains mainly the progressive elements of the theoretical foundations and methodological procedures of different times and schools (trends) and places them in the process which presents the course of development of linguistic theory as an organic whole. He deals in detail with the foreign (mainly American) and Hungarian monographic publications based on so-called modern methodologies and in the light of the facts of language points out the theoretical (gnoseological philosophical) errors which of course are errors from the point of view of general linguistics too. He relies on a Marxist-based interpretation of the modern concept of natural and social law for the formulation of his own conception of linguistic law which includes also his own view of linguistics structures.