Deviational Syntactic Structures

Taking as a point of departure ideas and principles from the 18th and 19th century Danish tradition, and from 20th century traditions of the Copenhagen School of linguistics, this book attempts to set up a formal theory of syntax that addresses some of the weak points of other formal grammars, notab...

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Main Author: G tzsche, Hans
Format: eBook Book
Language:English
Published: London Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 2013
Bloomsbury
Bloomsbury Academic
Edition:1
Series:Continuum studies in theoretical linguistics
Subjects:
Danish language
Danish language > Syntax
English language > Syntax
Grammar, Comparative and general
Grammar, Comparative and general > Syntax
Grammar, Syntax and Morphology
Language and languages > Syntax
Linguistics
Swedish language > Syntax
Syntax
ISBN:9781472541918, 147254191X, 082645738X, 9780826457387, 1472587960, 9781472587961
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Summary:Taking as a point of departure ideas and principles from the 18th and 19th century Danish tradition, and from 20th century traditions of the Copenhagen School of linguistics, this book attempts to set up a formal theory of syntax that addresses some of the weak points of other formal grammars, notably Chomskyan grammar. After introductions to the ideas of Brøndal, Hjelmslev and Diderichsen, Götzsche lays the philosophical and theoretical foundations of his formalism, based on a theory of universal pragmatics and on the invention of a special kind of formal logic called 'occurrence logic', and elaborates this formal system in detail. In order to justify the adequacy of the theory, the theoretical apparatus is applied to the general structures of Danish and Swedish and illustrated by linguistic material from these languages. Furthermore, the ambition is to propose solutions to traditional problems concerning more inferior grammatical categories like prepositions, infinitive markers and particles. The concluding chapter of the book presents some ideas about how the formal system can be transformed into a model of the cognitive mechanism that handles syntax. This book will be of interest to linguists, philosophers and scholars in theoretical linguistics and in Modern Languages.
Bibliography:linguistics2013; txt
Includes index
Bibliography: p. [217]-226
Originally published as the author's thesis (doctoral--Göteborgs universitet, 1994) under the title: Deviational syntactic structures : a contrastive linguistic study in the syntax of Danish and Swedish
ISBN:9781472541918
147254191X
082645738X
9780826457387
1472587960
9781472587961
DOI:10.5040/9781472541918