The origin and nature of the linguistic parasite
1. The functionalist’s view: linguistic forms are instruments used to convey meaningful elements. This is the basis of European structuralism. 2. The formalist’s view: linguistic forms are abstract structures which can be filled with meaningful elements. This is the basis of generative grammar. 3. The parasitologist’s view: linguistic forms are vehicles for the reproduction of meaningful elements. This is the view which I advocated twenty years ago in the Festschrift for Werner Winter’s 60th birthday (1985). Here I intend to discuss the evolutionary origin and the physiological nature of the linguistic parasite. My theory of language is wholly consistent with Gerald Edelman’s theory of neuronal group selection.
| Author: | Frederik H. H. Kortlandt |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1156878 |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 07.07.2010 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2003 |
| Publishing Institution: | Univ.-Bibliothek Frankfurt am Main |
| SWD-Keyword: | Evolutionstheorie |
| Source: | http://www.kortlandt.nl/publications/art206e.pdf ; (in:) Language in time and space [Fs. Winter]. - Berlin: Mouton, 2003, S. 241-244 |
| HeBIS PPN: | 264632826 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 400 Sprache |
| Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
| Linguistik-Klassifikation: | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Sprachtheorie / Theory of language |
| Note: | Korrigierte Version |
| Licence (German): |  Veröffentlichungsvertrag für Publikationen ohne Print on Demand |
