TY - UNPD A1 - Seiler, Hansjakob T1 - Determination: a universal dimension for inter-language comparison : (preliminary version) T2 - Kölner Universalienprojekt: Arbeiten des Kölner Universalien-Projekts ; Nr. 23 N2 - The basic idea I want to develop and to substantiate in this paper consists in replacing – where necessary – the traditional concept of linguistic category or linguistic relation understood as 'things', as reified hypostases, by the more dynamic concept of dimension. A dimension of language structure is not coterminous with one single category or relation but, instead, accommodates several of them. It corresponds to certain well circumscribed purposive functions of linguistic activity as well as to certain definite principles and techniques for satisfying these functions. The true universals of language are represented by these dimensions, principles, and techniques which constitute the true basis for non-historical inter-language comparison. The categories and relations used in grammar are condensations – hypostases as it were – of such dimensions, principles, and techniques. Elsewhere I have outlined the theory which I want to test here in a case study. T3 - Arbeiten des Kölner Universalien-Projekts : akup - 23 KW - Determination KW - Kontrastive Linguistik KW - Sprachliche Universalien Y1 - 1976 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/25121 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-251214 PB - Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Institut für Linguistik, Universität zu Köln CY - Köln ER -