Some conceptual and empirical issues in linguistic theory : an illustration with pronominal clitics
- I would like to discuss a few general conceptual issues in linguistic theory, and see how they bear on some empirical facts about pronominal clitics. In particular, I would like to show that the conception of linguistic theory, justified on independent grounds, limits the class of issues and possible explanations for grammatical properties of specific linguistic expressions. I argue that this is not simply a consequence of a specific conception of grammar, conceived of as a system of principles and rules governing language, but has non-trivial empirical ramifications. Pronominal clitics are a good case study, since their grammatical properties bear on a wide range of facts falling under the purview of principles of phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics.
Author: | Paul Law |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-307803 |
URL: | http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/fileadmin/material/ZASPiL_Volltexte/zp21/zaspil21-law.pdf |
ISSN: | 1435-9588 |
ISSN: | 0947-7055 |
Parent Title (English): | Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, Berlin, 2001; ZAS papers in linguistics Vol. 21 |
Publisher: | Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung |
Place of publication: | Berlin |
Document Type: | Part of a Book |
Language: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2013/11/14 |
Year of first Publication: | 2001 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2013/11/14 |
GND Keyword: | Sprachtheorie; Grammatiktheorie; Pronomen; Klitisierung; Empirische Linguistik |
Volume: | 21 |
Page Number: | 27 |
First Page: | 143 |
Last Page: | 174 |
HeBIS-PPN: | 381257533 |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 41 Linguistik / 410 Linguistik |
Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
Linguistik-Klassifikation: | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Sprachtypologie / Language typology |
Linguistik-Klassifikation: Sprachtheorie / Theory of language | |
Zeitschriften / Jahresberichte: | ZAS papers in linguistics : ZASPiL / ZASPiL 21 = Papers for Ewald Lang |
: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-306623 |
Licence (German): | Deutsches Urheberrecht |