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Form and formalism in linguistics
Synopsis
"Form" and "formalism" are a pair of highly productive and polysemous terms that occupy a central place in much linguistic scholarship. Diverse notions of "form" – embedded in biological, cognitive and aesthetic discourses – have been employed in accounts of language structure and relationship, while "formalism" harbours a family of senses referring to particular approaches to the study of language as well as representations of linguistic phenomena. This volume brings together a series of contributions from historians of science and philosophers of language that explore some of the key meanings and uses that these multifaceted terms and their derivatives have found in linguistics, and what these reveal about the mindset, temperament and daily practice of linguists, from the nineteenth century up to the present day.
Chapters
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Preface
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Visual formalisms in comparative-historical linguistics
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Alternating sounds and the formal franchise in phonology
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On Sapir’s notion of form/pattern and its aesthetic background
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Linguistics as a "special science"A comparison of Sapir and Fodor
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The impact of Russian formalism on linguistic structuralism
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The resistant embrace of formalism in the work of Émile Benveniste and Aurélien Sauvageot
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Linguistics as a science of structure
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Formalism, grammatical rules, and normativity
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Linguistic form: A political epistemology
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Published
May 10, 2019
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Details about the available publication format: Hardcover
Hardcover
ISBN-13 (15)
978-3-96110-183-2
Details about the available publication format: PDF
PDF
ISBN-13 (15)
978-3-96110-182-5
Publication date (01)
2019-05-20
