- Oxford Handbooks in Linguistics
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- Dedication
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- The Origins and the Evolution of Language
- The History of Writing as a History of Linguistics
- History of the Study of Gesture
- The History of Sign Language Linguistics
- Orthography and the Early History of Phonetics
- From IPA to Praat and Beyond
- Nineteenth-Century Study of Sound Change from Rask to Saussure
- Discoverers of the Phoneme
- A History of Sound Symbolism
- East Asian Linguistics
- Linguistics in India
- From Semitic to Afro-Asiatic
- From Plato to Priscian: Philosophy's Legacy to Grammar
- Pedagogical Grammars Before the Eighteenth Century
- Vernaculars and the Idea of a Standard Language
- Word-Based Morphology from Aristotle to Modern WP (Word and Paradigm Models)
- General or Universal Grammar from Plato to Chomsky
- American Descriptivism (‘Structuralism’)
- Noam Chomsky's Contribution to Linguistics: A Sketch
- European Linguistics since Saussure
- Functional and Cognitive Grammars
- Lexicography from Earliest Times to the Present
- The Logico-philosophical Tradition
- Lexical Semantics from Speculative Etymology to Structuralist Semantics
- Post-structuralist and Cognitive Approaches to Meaning
- A Brief Sketch of the Historic Development of Pragmatics
- Meaning in Texts and Contexts
- Comparative, Historical, and Typological Linguistics since the Eighteenth Century
- Language, Culture, and Society
- Language, the Mind, and the Brain
- Translation: the Intertranslatability of Languages; Translation and Language Teaching
- Computational Linguistics
- The History of Corpus Linguistics
- Philosophy of Linguistics
- References
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
The word-based model has been fairly stable through most of its history. The Alexandrine model provides the basis for the later Latin grammars and in turn for subsequent descriptive and pedagogical presentations of classical grammar. An essentially classical word-based perspective likewise survives into the Neogrammarian period and remains relevant to morphological analysis in the field of historical linguistics. Although neglected during the early Bloomfieldian period, word-based approaches attracted renewed interest following the proposals of Hockett (1954) and Robins (1959). The explicit model set out by Matthews (1965, 1972) established word-based approaches on the same footing as other contemporary models. From this point of origin, the word-based tradition evolved into distinctive realizational and implicational branches, both of which remain under active development. The evolution of this tradition not only rehabilitated an ancient model, but also reacquainted modern audiences with the types of morphological patterns that had initially motivated its classical variants.
Keywords: WP, word and paradigm, realization-based, implicational information-theoretic
James P. Blevins is Reader in Morphology and Syntax in the University of Cambridge. His current research is concerned mainly with the structure and complexity of inflectional systems. These issues are approached from the standpoint of contemporary word and paradigm models, interpreted from a largely information-theoretic and discriminative perspective.
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- Oxford Handbooks in Linguistics
- [UNTITLED]
- Dedication
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- The Origins and the Evolution of Language
- The History of Writing as a History of Linguistics
- History of the Study of Gesture
- The History of Sign Language Linguistics
- Orthography and the Early History of Phonetics
- From IPA to Praat and Beyond
- Nineteenth-Century Study of Sound Change from Rask to Saussure
- Discoverers of the Phoneme
- A History of Sound Symbolism
- East Asian Linguistics
- Linguistics in India
- From Semitic to Afro-Asiatic
- From Plato to Priscian: Philosophy's Legacy to Grammar
- Pedagogical Grammars Before the Eighteenth Century
- Vernaculars and the Idea of a Standard Language
- Word-Based Morphology from Aristotle to Modern WP (Word and Paradigm Models)
- General or Universal Grammar from Plato to Chomsky
- American Descriptivism (‘Structuralism’)
- Noam Chomsky's Contribution to Linguistics: A Sketch
- European Linguistics since Saussure
- Functional and Cognitive Grammars
- Lexicography from Earliest Times to the Present
- The Logico-philosophical Tradition
- Lexical Semantics from Speculative Etymology to Structuralist Semantics
- Post-structuralist and Cognitive Approaches to Meaning
- A Brief Sketch of the Historic Development of Pragmatics
- Meaning in Texts and Contexts
- Comparative, Historical, and Typological Linguistics since the Eighteenth Century
- Language, Culture, and Society
- Language, the Mind, and the Brain
- Translation: the Intertranslatability of Languages; Translation and Language Teaching
- Computational Linguistics
- The History of Corpus Linguistics
- Philosophy of Linguistics
- References
- Index