The Emergence Of Semantics In Four Linguistic Traditions

Author : Wout Jac. van Bekkum,Jan Houben,Ineke Sluiter,Kees Versteegh
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 339 pages
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Release : 1997-04-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027298812

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The Emergence of Semantics in Four Linguistic Traditions by Wout Jac. van Bekkum,Jan Houben,Ineke Sluiter,Kees Versteegh Pdf

The aim of this study is a comparative analysis of the role of semantics in the linguistic theory of four grammatical traditions, Sanskrit, Hebrew, Greek, Arabic. If one compares the organization of linguistic theory in various grammatical traditions, it soon turns out that there are marked differences in the way they define the place of ‘semantics’ within the theory. In some traditions, semantics is formally excluded from linguistic theory, and linguists do not express any opinion as to the relationship between syntactic and semantic analysis. In other traditions, the whole basis of linguistic theory is semantically orientated, and syntactic features are always analysed as correlates of a semantic structure. However, even in those traditions, in which semantics falls explicitly or implicitly outside the scope of linguistics, there may be factors forcing linguists to occupy themselves with the semantic dimension of language. One important factor seems to be the presence of a corpus of revealed/sacred texts: the necessity to formulate hermeneutic rules for the interpretation of this corpus brings semantics in through the back door.

Author : Wout Jac. van Bekkum
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027245687

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The Emergence of Semantics in Four Linguistic Traditions by Wout Jac. van Bekkum Pdf

The aim of this study is a comparative analysis of the role of semantics in the linguistic theory of four grammatical traditions, Sanskrit, Hebrew, Greek, Arabic. If one compares the organization of linguistic theory in various grammatical traditions, it soon turns out that there are marked differences in the way they define the place of 'semantics' within the theory. In some traditions, semantics is formally excluded from linguistic theory, and linguists do not express any opinion as to the relationship between syntactic and semantic analysis. In other traditions, the whole basis of linguistic theory is semantically orientated, and syntactic features are always analysed as correlates of a semantic structure. However, even in those traditions, in which semantics falls explicitly or implicitly outside the scope of linguistics, there may be factors forcing linguists to occupy themselves with the semantic dimension of language. One important factor seems to be the presence of a corpus of revealed/sacred texts: the necessity to formulate hermeneutic rules for the interpretation of this corpus brings semantics in through the back door.

Author : Victor Raskin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Semantics
ISBN : PURD:32754069977852

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A Concise History of Linguistic Semantics I by Victor Raskin Pdf

Author : Lia Formigari
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789027245960

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A History of Language Philosophies by Lia Formigari Pdf

Theory and history combine in this book to form a coherent narrative of the debates on language and languages in the Western world, from ancient classic philosophy to the present, with a final glance at on-going discussions on language as a cognitive tool, on its bodily roots and philogenetic role. An introductory chapter reviews the epistemological areas that converge into, or contribute to, language philosophy, and discusses their methods, relations, and goals. In this context, the status of language philosophy is discussed in its relation to the sciences and the arts of language. Each chapter is followed by a list of suggested readings that refer the reader to the final bibliography. About the author: Lia Formigari, Professor Emeritus at University of Rome, La Sapienza. Her publications include: Language and Experience in XVIIth-century British Philosophy. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: J. Benjamins, 1988; Signs, Science and Politics. Philosophies of Language in Europe 1700–1830. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: J. Benjamins, 1993; La sémiotique empiriste face au kantisme. Liège: Mardaga, 1994.

Author : E. F. K. Koerner
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027245946

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Essays in the History of Linguistics by E. F. K. Koerner Pdf

The present volume follows the author's tradition of bringing together at certain intervals selections of articles which more often than not had previously been published in not easily accessible places, or which had not been published before. These papers do not typically represent mere reprints but in most instances thoroughly revised versions.This volume contains twelve articles organized under three headings, "Programmatic Papers in the History of Linguistics," "Studies in Linguistic Historiography," and "Sketches historiographical and (auto)biographical," plus as an appendix a complete list of Zellig Harris' writings as an illustration of Koerner's penchant for and belief in the importance of good bibliographies as a basis for historical research. While the first two sections, which take up the bulk of the volume, either show the author as an historian engage or demonstrate his work as a historiographer of 19th and 20th century linguistics, the third section is much shorter and less heavy going. Indexes of Biographical Names and of Subjects, Terms & Languages round out the volume, which also contains a number of portraits of linguists and other illustrations.

Author : Sylvain Auroux,E.F.K. Koerner,Hans-Josef Niederehe,Kees Versteegh
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 1154 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2008-07-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110194005

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History of the Language Sciences / Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaften / Histoire des sciences du langage. 1. Teilband by Sylvain Auroux,E.F.K. Koerner,Hans-Josef Niederehe,Kees Versteegh Pdf

Writing in English, German, or French, more than 300 authors provide a historical description of the beginnings and of the early and subsequent development of thinking about language and languages within the relevant historical context. The gradually emerging institutions concerned with the study, organisation, documentation, and distribution are considered as well as those dealing with the utilisation of language related knowledge. Special emphasis has been placed on related disciplines, such as rhetoric, the philosophy of language, cognitive psychology, logic and neurological science.

Author : Klaus Heusinger,Claudia Maienborn,Paul Portner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110393347

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Semantics - Foundations, History and Methods by Klaus Heusinger,Claudia Maienborn,Paul Portner Pdf

Get to grips with the fundamentals of semantics research. Written by a team of world-class experts, this book introduces the subject for a broad audience of linguists, cognitive scientists, philosophers, and computer scientists. It explores the core concepts of sentential semantics and includes sections on questions, imperatives, copular clauses, and existential sentences. It also features essential research on sentence types, and explains central concepts in the theory of information structure and discourse structure. Now in paperback for the first time since its original publication, the material in this modern classic is an ideal resource for anyone involved in semantics research.

Author : Brigitte Nerlich
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027245465

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Semantic Theories in Europe, 1830-1930 by Brigitte Nerlich Pdf

It is widely believed by historians of linguistics that the 19th-century was largely devoted to historical and comparative studies, with the main emphasis on the discovery of soundlaws. Syntax is typically portrayed as a mere sideline of these studies, while semantics is seldom even mentioned. If it comes into view at all, it is usually assumed to have been confined to diachronic lexical semantics and the construction of some (mostly ill-conceived) typologies of semantic change. This book aims to destroy some of these prejudices and to show that in Europe semantics was an important, although controversial, area at that time. Synchronic mechanisms of semantic change were discovered and increasing attention was paid to the context of the sentence, to the speech situation and the users of the language. From being a semantics of transformations', a child of the biological-geological paradigm of historical linguistics with its close links to etymology and lexicography, the field matured into a semantics of comprehension and communication, set within a general linguistics and closely related to the emerging fields of psychology and sociology.

Author : Ghassan el Masri
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004428034

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The Semantics of Qurʾanic Language: al-Āḫira by Ghassan el Masri Pdf

In The Semantics of Qurʾanic Language: al-Āḫira, Ghassan el Masri offers a semantic study of the concept al-āḫira ‘the End’ in the Qurʾān. The study is prefaced with a detailed account of the late antique concept of etymologia (Semantic Etymology). In his work, he demonstrates the necessity of this concept for appreciating the Qurʾān’s rhetorical strategies for claiming discursive authority in the Abrahamic theological tradition. The author applies the etymological tool to his investigation of the theological significance of al-āḫira, and concludes that the concept is polysemous, and tolerates a large variety of interpretations. The work is unique in that it draws extensively on Biblical material and presents a plethora of pre-Islamic poetry verses in the analysis of the concept.

Author : James Kilbury
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1976-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027209511

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The Development of Morphophonemic Theory by James Kilbury Pdf

The aim of this book is to provide a concise historical survey of linguistic investigation relating to the notion of morphophonemics. The study is essentially historical and thus does not offer its own theory of morphophonemics. Since attention is focused on the "development" of morphophonemic theory, contemporary work in this area is not of central concern. But the study was undertaken in the hope that a better understanding of earlier work would help to clarify present-day issues.

Author : Brigitte Nerlich,David D. Clarke
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027245670

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Language, Action, and Context by Brigitte Nerlich,David D. Clarke Pdf

The roots of pragmatics reach back to Antiquity, especially to rhetoric as one of the three liberal arts. However, until the end of the 18th century proto-pragmatic insights tended to be consigned to the pragmatic, that is rhetoric, wastepaper basket and thus excluded from serious philosophical consideration.It can be said that pragmatics was conceived between 1780 and 1830 in Britain, but also in Germany and in France in post-Lockian and post-Kantian philosophies of language. These early 'conceptions' of pragmatics are described in the first part of the book.The second part of the book looks at pragmatic insights made between 1830 and 1880, when they were once more relegated to the philosophical and linguistic underground. The main stage was then occupied by a fact-hunting historical comparative linguistics on the one hand and a newly spiritualised philosophy on the other.In the last part the period between 1880 and 1930 is presented, when pragmatic insights flourished and were sought after systematically. This was due in part to a new upsurge in empiricism, positivism and later behaviourism in philosophy, linguistics and psychology. Between 1780 and 1930 philosophers, psychologists, sociologists and linguists came to see that language could only be studied in the context of dialogue, in the context of human life and finally as being a kind of human action itself.

Author : Otto Zwartjes,Maria Cristina Salles Altman
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027246004

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Lingüí?stica Misionera II by Otto Zwartjes,Maria Cristina Salles Altman Pdf

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Author : E. F. K. Koerner
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027209603

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Toward a Historiography of Linguistics by E. F. K. Koerner Pdf

The papers brought together in the present volume represent the essence of the author s reflections on issues concerning linguistic historiography and of particular investigations in 19th and 20th century linguistic thought. The papers are clustered in three sections: I. Towards a Historiography of Linguistics, II. Appraisals of Individual Scholars, and III. Trends and Traditions in Linguistics.

Author : Everhard Ditters,Harald Motzki
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 795 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004160156

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Approaches to Arabic Linguistics by Everhard Ditters,Harald Motzki Pdf

This Liber Amicorum discusses topics on the history of Arabic grammar, Arabic linguistics, and Arabic dialects, domains in which Kees Versteegh plays a leading role.

Author : Stanley E. Porter,Andrew Pitts
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004234772

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The Language of the New Testament by Stanley E. Porter,Andrew Pitts Pdf

In The Language of the New Testament, Stanley E. Porter and Andrew W. Pitts assemble an international team of scholars whose work has focused on the Greek language of the earliest Christians in terms of its context, history and development.