Arbeiten des Kölner Universalien-Projekts : akup
Institut für Sprachwissenschaft, Universität zu Köln. Hrsg. der Reihe: H. Seiler
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Meine Untersuchung behandelt das Problem der Kennzeichnung notivischer Bestimmtheit/Unbestimmtheit aus der Perspektive der Wortstellung in Sätzen mit Objekt, also in sogenannten transitiven Sätzen. Relativsätze und Sätze, in denen das Verb diskontinuierlich ist, wurden dabei nicht berücksichtigt, weil die Wortstellung hier von anderen Faktoren abhängt. Die Möglichkeit der grammatischen Realisierung des Ausdrucks von notivischer Bestimmtheit/Unbestimmtheit […] wird dabei mit berücksichtigt.
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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.