A minimalist program for linguistics
The work of zellig harris on meaning and information
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3955223 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bruce E Nevin (Bolt Beranek & Newman/University of Pennsylvania, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 2-3 |
| Pages | 355-398 |
| Publication date | 1993-01-01 |
| 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.20.2-3.06nev |
| OpenAlex | W1986206408 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 39 |
Zellig S. Harris (1909-1992) is a familiar icon of American structuralism. According to received views of the history of linguistics in the 20th century, he is an exemplar of 'taxonomic linguistics' seeking practical discovery procedures whereby one could mechanically derive a grammar from distributional analysis of a corpus of utterances without reference to meaning, and a proponent of empiricist and behaviorist views that have been overthrown by the revolution of Generative linguistics. An examination of what he actually wrote, however, shows a lifelong concern with the analysis and representation of meaning. Harris' approach to the evaluation of alternative tools of analysis, alternative grammars, and alternative theories of language arises from a crucial but little acknowledged dilemma of linguistics grounded in a fundamental property of language, namely, that it contains within itself virtually unrestricted metalinguistic capacities, upon which any description of language whatever either directly or indirectly depends
Applied linguistics · Clinical linguistics · Epistemology · Generative grammar · Grammar · Linguistics · Meaning (existential · Quantitative linguistics · Quine · Rule-based machine translation · Structural linguistics · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
Syntactic Structures
The Phonemic Principle
American Structuralism
A Leonard Bloomfield Anthology
A Theory of Language and Information
Behavior
Language, Mind, and Knowledge
Mind and nature
The origin and developmemt of generative semantics
Linguistic Aspects of Science
Linguistic theory in America
Distributional Structure
Cybernetic Explanation
Public Versus Private Support of Science
The Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory
Discourse Analysis
Co-Occurrence and Transformation in Linguistic Structure
Grundzüge der Phonologie
From Phoneme to Morpheme
Immediate Constituents
Transformational Theory
The Status of Linguistics as a Science
From Morpheme to Utterance
A Grammar of English on Mathematical Principles
The Phonemic Principle
Problems of Morphemic Analysis
Methods in Structural Linguistics
Discourse Analysis
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,07 |
| Citation span | 1998 - 2003 (6) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |