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Discussion paper on Gilbert Lazard's “On the status of linguistics with particular regard to typology”
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Paolo Ramat
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27. Juli 2005
Abstract
This paper deals with the concept of internal versus external explanation in linguistics and the difficulty of drawing a clear-cut dividing line. Crosslinguistic comparison helps us to understand what may be considered as strictly pertaining to the linguistic dimension or to a larger cognitive frame. Linguistic categories are then discussed in this frame of reference and a scheme is proposed where the notion of “category” does not apply to concepts such as “passive”, “perfect”, or “subject”. Finally it is maintained that the classical “parts-of-speech” theory is still a valuable tool for crosslinguistic comparison in a typological perspective.
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Published Online: 2005-07-27
Published in Print: 2004-09-13
© Walter de Gruyter
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- Introduction
- Data in linguistics
- Linguistic data as complex items
- The object, the method, and the ghosts Remarks on a terra incognita
- On categories, rules and interfaces in linguistics
- More on categories and interfaces
- The problem of variation
- On the study of the language faculty: Results, developments, and perspectives
- The relation between mind and language: The Innateness Hypothesis and the Poverty of the Stimulus
- On the status of linguistics with particular regard to typology
- Discussion paper on Gilbert Lazard's “On the status of linguistics with particular regard to typology”
- Publications received Oct. 2003–Sept. 2004
- Subject index
- Contents of volume 21
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Introduction
- Data in linguistics
- Linguistic data as complex items
- The object, the method, and the ghosts Remarks on a terra incognita
- On categories, rules and interfaces in linguistics
- More on categories and interfaces
- The problem of variation
- On the study of the language faculty: Results, developments, and perspectives
- The relation between mind and language: The Innateness Hypothesis and the Poverty of the Stimulus
- On the status of linguistics with particular regard to typology
- Discussion paper on Gilbert Lazard's “On the status of linguistics with particular regard to typology”
- Publications received Oct. 2003–Sept. 2004
- Subject index
- Contents of volume 21
