| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 224 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Series |
Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series III, Studies in the history of the language sciences,
0304-0720 ;
v. 96
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Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series III, Studies in the history of the language sciences ; v. 96.
0304-0720
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-216) and index. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Cratylus -- pt. 2. After Cratylus. |
| Summary |
The idea that some aspects of language are 'natural', while others are arbitrary, artificial or derived, runs all through modern linguistics, from Chomsky's GB theory and Minimalist program and his concept of E- and I-language, to Greenberg's search for linguistic universals, Pinker's views on regular and irregular morphology and the brain, and the markedness-based constraints of Optimality Theory. This book traces the heritage of this linguistic naturalism back to its locus classicus, Plato's dialogue Cratylus. The first half of the book is a detailed examination of the linguistic arguments i. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Plato. Cratylus.
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Plato. Cratylus. |
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Cratylus (Plato) |
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Language and languages -- Philosophy.
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Language and languages -- Philosophy. |
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Naturalness (Linguistics)
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Naturalness (Linguistics) |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Joseph, John Earl. Limiting the arbitrary. Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2000 1556197497 (DLC) 00062112 (OCoLC)44727847 |
| ISBN |
9789027283726 (electronic book) |
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9027283729 (electronic book) |
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128317460X |
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9781283174602 |
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1556197497 |
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9781556197499 |
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9027245851 |
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9789027245854 |
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