Grammar and lexicon in traditional grammar
The work of Matthias Kramer and Johann Joachim Becher
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4885346 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Carlos Subirats-Rüggeberg (Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 297-350 |
| Publication date | 1994-01-01 |
| 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.21.3.03sub |
| OpenAlex | W2061503001 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 13 |
InMethodvs didactica(1668) and other works Johann Joachim Becher (1635-1682) developed a theory of grammar which was based on the study of lexical, syntactic and semantic relations of words within the lexicon of a language. Matthias Kramer (1640-C.1730), in his many bilingual dictionaries, applied Becher's grammatical theory to develop a general theory of linguistic analysis, studying the morphological relationships between roots, derivatives and/or compounds, synonymy between words, and the relationships of words in sentences and idioms in various languages. The paper demonstrates that Kramer's approach effectively marks a breakaway from traditional grammar as still found in the works of Justus Georg Schottel (1612-1676), Kaspar Stieler (1632-1707), and others, because it applies an explicit grammatical model and because it does away with the traditional separation between lexicon and grammar. Kramer also breaks with the traditional association between form and meaning, which not only affects his concept of grammatical explanation, but also his way of establishing a comparison between languages. Kramer's linguistic approach, it is suggested, presents certain similarities with modern studies of lexical grammar, since both try to study linguistic phenomena in the lexicon and both eliminate the arbitary separation between lexicon and grammar
Emergent grammar · Grammar · Lexicon · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Computer Science · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · Lexicography and Language Studies · Linguistics and language evolution · Philosophy · Artificial Intelligence
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,07 |
| Citation span | 1996 - 2010 (15) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |