Limiting the Arbitrary: Linguistic Naturalism and Its Opposites in Plato's Cratylus and the Modern Theories of LanguageJohn Benjamins Publishing, 2000 - 224 páginas 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. |
Contenido
Foreword vii | 1 |
Chapter 2 | 39 |
Chapter 3 | 59 |
Chapter 4 | 93 |
Chapter 5 | 141 |
Chapter 6 | 169 |
Afterword | 201 |
217 | |
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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 established etymology example exist fact function Greek guage HERM Hermogenes History of Linguistics human I-language idea Ideal Form ideal words imitation individual inflectional Jakobson knowledge language language-maker langue lawgiver lexical lexicon linguistic correctness linguistic thought logic mark markedness meaning mind morphology nature neogrammarian Newspeak Nineteen Eighty-Four nomos notion nouns opposite original Orwell passage periphery philosophical phonemes phonology physis Plato poets political position principle Protagoras question reality rhetoric Sanskrit Saussure Saussure's Saussurean sense signify signs Skamandros Socrates someone sounds speaking speech standard structure suggests syntax teaching tekhnē theory tion Trubetzkoy truth universal Universal Grammar unmarked Varro verbs vernacular
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