The Transformational-Generative Paradigm and Modern Linguistic Theory

GRAMMATICAL THEORY AND METASCIENCE......Page 2
Editorial page......Page 3
Title page......Page 4
Copyright page......Page 5
Preface
......Page 6
Table of contents......Page 8
1.0. THE IDEA OF \'POSITIVISM\'......Page 12
1.1. The Data of Positivist Science; the Definition of \'Empirical\'......Page 13
1.2. Explanation, Prediction, and Testing......Page 15
1.3. Comparison with Peirce\'s Logic of Science......Page 20
1.4. Theory and Observation......Page 23
1.5. Ontology......Page 27
1.6. Concluding Remarks......Page 29
2.0. THE IDEA OF \'HERMENEUTICS\'......Page 31
2.1. Psychology......Page 32
2.2. Sociology......Page 35
2.3. Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy......Page 41
2.4. Sociology of Knowledge......Page 44
2.5. Philosophy......Page 53
2.6. Logic......Page 59
2.7. Concluding Remarks......Page 65
3.1. Saussure......Page 66
3.2. Hjelmslev......Page 70
3.3. Sapir......Page 72
3.4. Bloomfield......Page 79
3.5. Harris......Page 82
3.6. Transformational Grammar......Page 86
3.7. Some Recent Developments in Linguistic Theory......Page 98
3.8. Conclusion......Page 100
4.1. Characterisation of the Traditionist Epistemology......Page 102
4.2.1. The Axiomaticity of the Concepts of Person and Thing......Page 105
4.2.2. Mind, Behaviour, and Environment......Page 107
4.2.3. Characterisation of Mental Phenomena: the Notion of \'Pattern\'
......Page 115
4.2.4. General Characteristics of the Conceptual Distinctions Employed in the Present Study......Page 119
4.2.5. The Impossibility of Private Languages......Page 120
4.3.1 . Psycholinguistics......Page 124
4.3.2. Theory of Grammar......Page 128
5.1. Ontology: Rules of Language as Constituted by \'CommonKnowledge \'......Page 133
5.2. Epistemology: the Distinction between Language and Linguistic Intuition......Page 142
5.3. Rules of Language and Certainty......Page 152
5.4. Rules of Language and Social Control......Page 162
6.0. THE BASIS OF THE NONEMPIRICAL NATURE OF GRAMMAR......Page 166
6.1. The Difference Between Rule-Sentences and EmpiricalHypotheses......Page 167
6.2. Examples of Rules and Rule-Sentences......Page 177
6.3. Two Different Types of Rule-Sentence......Page 179
7.1. A Synchronic Grammar Does not Investigate Spatiotemporal Utterances, but Correct Sentences......Page 186
7.2. Grammatical Concepts Are not Comparable to Theoretical Concepts of Natural Science......Page 188
7.3 Rules Ave not Regularities of Non-Normative Actions......Page 193
7.4. Grammatical Descriptions Cannot Be Replaced by Psycholinguists\'c and/or Socio linguistic Descriptions
......Page 198
7.5. The Position of Transformational Grammar vis-à-vis Linguistic Normativity......Page 199
8.0. LANGUAGE AND GRAMMAR......Page 203
8.1. The Basis of the Difference between Natural Science andHuman Science: Observer\'s Knowledge vs. Agent\'s Knowledge......Page 204
8.2. The Two-Level Nature of the Human Sciences : Atheoretical vs. Theoretical......Page 209
8.3. The Two-Level Nature of Grammar......Page 219
8.4. The Ontological Reality of Grammatical Descriptions......Page 230
9.1. General Remarks......Page 239
9.2. Explanation and Prediction......Page 244
9.3. Testing......Page 256
9.4. Universal Linguistic Theory......Page 274
9.5. Appendix: Examples Taken from the Transformationalist Literature......Page 275
10.1. The Basts of the Similarity \'between Generative Grammars and Systems of Logic......Page 287
10.2. Testing......Page 291
10.3. Explanation......Page 298
11.1. The Methodology of Classical Philosophy......Page 305
11.2. The Concept of \'Explication\'......Page 312
11.3. Grammars as Instances of Explication......Page 318
CONCLUSION......Page 322
Chap. 1. THE IDEA OF \'POSITIVSM\'......Page 324
Chap. 2. THE IDEA OF \'HERMENEUTICS\'......Page 325
Chap. 3. 20-TH CENTURY LINGUISTIC THEORIES......Page 327
Chap. 4. PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS OF THE CONCEPT OF LANGUAGE......Page 329
Chap. 5. THE CONCEPT OF LANGUAGE......Page 333
Chap. 6. THE BASIS OF THE NONEMPIRICAL NATURE OF GRAMMAR......Page 336
Chap. 7. THE INELIMINABILITY OF LINGUISTIC NORMATIVITY......Page 337
Chap. 9. THE METHODOLOGY OF GRAMMAR......Page 339
Chap. 11. GRAMMAR AND PHILOSOPHY......Page 341
REFERENCES......Page 342
INDEX OF AUTHORS......Page 360
INDEX OF TERMS......Page 364