TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
T1  - A parasitological view of non-constructible sets
N2  - The genetic code, the primary manifestation of life, and, on the other hand, language, the universal endowment of humanity and its momentous leap from genetics to civilization, are the two fundamental stores of information transmissible from the ancestry to the progeny, the molecular succession, which ensures the transfer of hereditary messages from the cells of one generation to the next generation, and the verbal legacy as a necessary prerequisite of cultural tradition. Divergent terminologies direct attention to different pattemings; and finding a logically convincing test, acceptable all around, that can determine whether one such system of terms is superior to its rivals, is often impossible. Yet the slow processes of evolution presumably apply to human societies and their symbolic systems as much as to human bodies, so that when logic cannot decide, survival eventually will.
KW  - Sprachtheorie
KW  - Sprachlogik
Y1  - 2010
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/14637
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1155640
UR  - http://www.kortlandt.nl/publications/art067e.pdf
N1  - Postprint, Korrigierte Version, zuerst in: Studia linguistica diachronica et synchronica, [Fs. Winter], Berlin: Mouton, 1985, S. 477-483
SP  - 1
EP  - 6
ER  -