200 years of syntax : a critical survey /

This book argues convincingly against the widespread opinion that very few syntactic studies were carried out before the 1950s. Relying on the detailed analysis of a large amount of original sources, it shows that syntactic matters were in fact carefully investigated throughout both the 19th century...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Graffi, Giorgio
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, ©2001.
Colección:Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Studies in the history of the language sciences ; v. 98.
Temas:
Grammar, Comparative and general > Syntax > History.
Syntaxe > Histoire.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Syntax.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Syntax
History
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  • 200 YEARS OF SYNTAX A CRITICAL SURVEY
  • Editorial page
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Table of contents
  • PREFACE
  • CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION
  • 1. 'History of linguistic science' and 'history of linguistic thought'
  • 2. Syntax and psychology: vicissitudes of a relationship
  • 3. Overall design of the volume
  • PART I THE AGE OF PSYCHOLOGISM IN LINGUISTICS
  • CHAPTER 2 THE RISE AND FALL OF 'PSYCHOLOGISTIC' SYNTAX
  • 0. Introduction
  • 1. The legacy of the grammaire générale and its abandonment
  • 1.1 'Philosophical ' grammar
  • 1.2 Humboldt's views on syntax.
  • 2. Steinthal's program and the birth of psychologism in linguistics
  • 2.1 Hegel, Herbart and Humboldt's influence on Steinthal
  • 2.2 The ""divorce"" of grammar from logic
  • 2.3 'Ethnopsychology' and language classification
  • 3. Developments of psychologism
  • 3.1 Ethnopsychology in Gabelentz
  • 3.2 Paul and other opponents of ethnopsychology
  • 3.3 Wundt's impact on linguistics
  • 3.4 The debate between Wundt and the Neogrammarians
  • 4. The criticism of psychologism: Brentano, Marty, Husserl
  • 4.1 Brentano's 'intentionalistic' psychology
  • 4.2 Marty's philosophy of language
  • 4.3 Husserl.
  • 5. Towards the crisis of psychologism
  • 5.1 Overview
  • 5.2 Language as a 'social phenomenon ': the French school and the school of Geneva
  • 5.3 Logic and psychology vs. grammar in Jespersen
  • 5.4 Bühler and the functional view of language
  • CHAPTER 3 ""WHAT IS SYNTAX?""
  • 0. Introduction
  • 1. Crisis in the logic-based model of syntax
  • 2. Grammatical, logical and psychological categories
  • 2.1 'Syntactic ' order and 'psychological' order
  • 2.2 The logical' and 'psychological' subject and predicate
  • 2.3 'Subject' is not a linguistic category.
  • 2.4 Towards the abandoning of 'psychological' categories
  • 3. The debate on impersonals
  • 3.1 Do 'subjectless' sentences exist?
  • 3.2 What does the subject pronoun of impersonal sentences mean?
  • CHAPTER 4 THE ANALYSES OF THE SENTENCE AND OF THE WORD GROUPS
  • 0. Introduction
  • 1. 'What is a sentence?'
  • 1.1 The rise and fall of the equation sentence
  • judgement
  • 1.2 Main clauses and dependent clauses
  • 1.3 New models of the sentence: 'psychological', 'grammatical', 'communicative '
  • 1.4 The sentence as judgement: resumption of the old model in a psychologistic framework.
  • 1.5 Criticisms of Wundt's conception of the sentence and new approaches to the problem
  • 1.6 Ries ' theory of the sentence
  • 1.7 Jespersen 's notion of 'nexus '
  • 2. The nature and classification of word groups
  • 2.1 Word groups vs. sentences
  • 2.2 Attribution vs. predication
  • 2.3 The internal structure of word groups
  • 2.4 Word order inside word groups
  • PART II THE AGE OF STRUCTURAL LINGUISTICS
  • CHAPTER 5 THE ROLE OF SYNTAX IN THE STRUCTURALIST SYSTEMS
  • 0. Introduction
  • 1. New insights and ties with the past
  • 1.1 Saussure 's dichotomies and their impact on syntactic research.

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