2. Some implications of Zellig Harris’s work for the philosophy of science

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Foreword ix
4. Acknowledgements xxxv
5. The background of transformational and metalanguage analysis 1
6. Part I. Philosophy of science
7. 1. Method and theory in Harris’s Grammar of Information 19
8. 2. Some implications of Zellig Harris’s work for the philosophy of science 39
9. 3. Consequences of the metalanguage being included in the language 57
10. 4. On Discovery Procedures 69
11. Part 2. Discourse and sublanguage analysis
12. 5. Grammatical specification of scientific sublanguages 89
13. 6. Classifiers and reference 103
14. 7. Some implications of Zellig Harris’s discourse analysis 117
15. 8. Accounting for subjectivity (point of view) 137
16. Part 3. Syntax and semantics
17. 9. Some new results on Transfer Grammar 167
18. 10. Pseudoarguments and pseudocomplements 179
19. 11. Verbs of a feather flock together II 209
20. Part IV. Phonology
21. 12. The voiceless unaspirated stops of English 233
22. 13. On the bipartite distribution of phonemes 241
23. Part V. Applications
24. 14. Operator grammar and the poetic form of Takelma texts 261
25. 15. A practical application of string analysis 279
26. Zellig Sabbettai Harris 305
27. Name index 317
28. Subject index 319