Limiting the Arbitrary: Linguistic naturalism and its opposites in Plato's <i>Cratylus</i> and modern theories of languageJohn Benjamins Publishing, 15. okt. 2000 - 224 sider The idea that some aspects of language are natural , while others are arbitrary, artificial or derived, runs all through modern linguistics, from Chomsky s GB theory and Minimalist program and his concept of E- and I-language, to Greenberg s search for linguistic universals, Pinker s views on regular and irregular morphology and the brain, and the markedness-based constraints of Optimality Theory. This book traces the heritage of this linguistic naturalism back to its locus classicus, Plato s dialogue Cratylus. The first half of the book is a detailed examination of the linguistic arguments in the Cratylus. The second half follows three of the dialogue s naturalistic themes through subsequent linguistic history natural grammar and conventional words, from Aristotle to Pinker; natural dialect and artificial language, from Varro to Chomsky; and invisible hierarchies, from Jakobson to Optimality Theory in search of a way forward beyond these seductive yet spurious and limiting dichotomies. |
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CHAPTER 2 WORDS AND TRUTH CRATYLUS 391D2422E1 | 39 |
CHAPTER 3 IMITATION AND ESSENCE CRATYLUS 422E1440E7 | 59 |
Part Two After Cratylus | 91 |
CHAPTER 4 NATURAL GRAMMAR AND CONVENTIONAL WORDS FROM ARISTOTLE TO PINKER | 93 |
CHAPTER 5 NATURAL DIALECT AND ARTIFICIAL LANGUAGE FROM VARRO TO CHOMSKY | 141 |
CHAPTER 6 INVISIBLE HIERARCHIES FROM JAKOBSON TO OPTIMALITY THEORY | 169 |
AFTERWORD LINGUISTICS AFTER NATURALISM | 201 |
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abstract actual analogy appears arbitrary archiphoneme argument Aristotle Astyanax called century Chomsky Chomsky’s common concept concerned convention core grammar correctness of words correlation CRAT Cratylus debate Democritus derivation dialects dialogue discussion distinction elements English enquiry Epicurus essence etymology example exist fact first flux follow function Greek guage HERM Hermogenes historical human I-language idea Ideal Form ideal words imitation individual inflectional influence Jakobson knowledge language language-making langue Latin lawgiver lexical lexicon linguistic correctness logic mark markedness meaning mind morphology nature neogrammarian Newspeak Nineteen Eighty-Four nomoi nomos notion nouns opposite original Orwell passage periphery philosophical phonemes phonological phonology physis Plato poets political position principle Protagoras question reality reflection rhetoric Sanskrit Saussure Saussure’s Saussurean sense signs Skamandros Socrates someone sounds speaking speech standard structure suggests syntax teaching tekhné theory tion Trubetzkoy truth universal Universal Grammar unmarked Varro verbs vernacular