A Postulate for Linguistics in the Sixties
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2849283 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Archibald A Hill (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1962 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 345 |
| Publication date | 1962-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0097-8507 • E-ISSN: 1535-0665 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/410670 |
| OpenAlex | W2315285888 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
The approach to language study represented by postulates and corollaries was once the basis of Bloomfieldian linguistics, yet it is now somewhat out of fashion. Sets of postulates have a tendency to grow in number and unwieldiness, and transformational investigators favor a more operational analysis and statement. Yet transformational study itself rests upon a postulate which is at present implicit. Stated without setting it into the Euclidian language and style favored by Bloomfield, it is that the relations between utterances are capable of being stated in the form of manipulations. Such an approach to utterances forces us to assume that all utterances contain items in combination, and that all items can appear in other utterances, which are then new combinations
Linguistics · Sociology · Theoretical linguistics · History · Multilingual Education and Policy · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy · Translation Studies and Practices
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,02 |
| Citation span | 1964 - 1964 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |