Structuralism and Autonomy
From Saussure to Chomsky
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3955035 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John M Anderson (0000-0002-0306-032X, Methoni Messinias, Greece, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 117-148 |
| Publication date | 2005-06-08 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Historiographia Linguistica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0302-5160 • E-ISSN: 1569-9781 |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1075/hl.32.2.06and |
| OpenAlex | W2016853599 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 32 |
Structuralism sought to introduce various kinds of autonomy into the study of language, including the autonomy of that study itself. The basis for this was the insistence on categorial autonomy, whereby categories are identified language-internally (whether in a particular language or in language generally). In relation to phonology, categorial autonomy has generally been tempered by grounding: the categories correlate (at least prototypically) with substance, phonetic properties. This is manifested in the idea of 'natural classes' in generative phonology, for instance. Usually, however, and particularly since Bloomfield, no such grounding (in meaning) has been attributed to syntax. This attitude culminates in the principle of the autonomy of syntax which was put forward in transformational-generative grammar. Such an attitude can be contrasted not merely with most pre-structural linguistics but also, in its severity, with other developments in structuralism. In present-day terms, the groundedness of syntax assumes that only the behaviour of semantically typical members of a category determines its basic syntax, and this syntax reflects the semantic properties; groundedness filters out potential syntactic analyses that are incompatible with this
Autonomy · Epistemology · Generative grammar · Linguistics · Meaning (existential · Phonology · Political science · Structuralism (philosophy of science · Syntax · Transformational grammar · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis · Philosophy · Psychology · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
Essays on form and interpretation
Linguistics and English grammar
Transformational Grammar
Semantic Interpretation In Generative Grammar
Cartesianische Linguistik
Syntactic Structures
On the Goals of Linguistic Theory
Language topics
Towards a ‘notional’ theory of the ‘parts of speech’
The Nature of Phonological Primes
A Short History of Structural Linguistics
De Saussure's System of Linguistics
Structural analogy and universal grammar
An introduction to phonological theory
Co-Occurrence and Transformation in Linguistic Structure
Meaning and Linguistic Analysis
Immediate Constituents
From Morpheme to Utterance
Studies in Colloquial Japanese II Syntax
Outline of Ilocano Syntax
A Set of Postulates for the Science of Language
Structuralism
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2012 (5) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |