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Is language the key to number? This article argues that the human language faculty provides the cognitive equipment that enables humans to develop a systematic number concept. Crucially, this concept is based on non-iconic representations that involve relations between relations: relations between numbers are linked with relations between objects. In contrast to this, language-independent numerosity concepts provide only iconic representations. The pattern of forming relations between relations lies at the heart of our language faculty, suggesting that it is language that enables humans to make the step from these iconic representations, which we share with other species, to a generalised concept of number.
I discuss the status of WH-words for interrogative interpretations, and show that the derivation of constituent questions evolves from a specific interplay of syntactic and semantic representations with pragmatics. I argue that WH-pronouns are not ‘interrogative’. Rather, they are underspecified elements; due to this underspecification, WH-words can form a constitutive part not only of interrogative, but also of exclamative and declarative clauses. WH-words introduce a variable of a particular conceptual domain into the semantic representation. Accordingly, they have to be specified for interpretation. Different WH-contexts give rise to different interpretations. In a cross-linguistic overview, I discuss the characteristic elements contributing to the derivation of interrogatives. I argue that specific particles or their phonologically empty counterparts in the head of CP contribute the interrogative aspect. The speech act of ‘asking’ is then carried out via an intonational contour that identifies a question. By default, this intonational contour operates on interrogative sentences; however, other sentence formats – in particular, those of declarative sentences – are possible as well. The distinction of (a) grammatical (syntactic, semantic and phonological) sentence formats for interrogative and declarative sentences, and (b) intonational contours serving the discrimination of speech acts like questions and assertions, can be related to psychological and neurological evidence.
This volume brings together a cross-section of recent research on the grammar and representation of pronouns, centering around the typology of pronominal paradigms, the generation of syntactic and semantic representations for constructions containing pronouns, and the neurological underpinnings for linguistic distinctions that are relevant for the production and interpretation of these constructions. In this introductory chapter we first give an exposition of our topic (section 2). Taking the interpretation of pronouns as a starting point, we discuss the basic parameters of pronominal representations, and draw a general picture of how morphological, semantic, discourse-pragmatic and syntactic aspects come together. In section 3, we sketch the different domains of research that are concerned with these phenomena, and the particular questions they are interested in, and show how the papers in the present volume fit into the picture. Section 4 gives summaries of the individual papers, and a short synopsis of their main points of convergence.
What role does language play in the development of numerical cognition? In the present paper I argue that the evolution of symbolic thinking (as a basis for language) laid the grounds for the emergence of a systematic concept of number. This concept is grounded in the notion of an infinite sequence and encompasses number assignments that can focus on cardinal aspects ("three pencils"), ordinal aspects ("the third runner"), and even nominal aspects ("bus #3"). I show that these number assignments are based on a specific association of relational structures, and that it is the human language faculty that provides a cognitive paradigm for such an association, suggesting that language played a pivotal role in the evolution of systematic numerical cognition.
In linguistics and the philosophy of language, the mass/count distinction has traditionally been regarded as a bi-partition on the nominal domain, where typical instances are nouns like "beef" (mass) vs."cow" (count). In the present paper, we argue that this partition reveals a system that is based on both syntactic features and conceptual features, and present experimental evidence suggesting that the discrimination of the two kinds of features has a psychological reality.
Gegenstand des vorliegenden Beitrags ist der Zusammenhang der beiden Bereiche Sprache und außersprachliches Begriffssystem: Wie sind sprachliche und konzeptuelle Module verknüpft, und wie lässt sich ihr Zusammenhang theoretisch erfassen? Ich skizziere zwei alternative Ansätze zur Modellierung dieser Schnittstelle: das „Zwei-Ebenen-Modell“ und das Modell der „Conceptual Semantics“. Vor dem Hintergrund der beiden Ansätze diskutiere ich die Notwendigkeit eines vom konzeptuellen unterschiedenen „semantischen“ Systems, das sprachliche Aspekte der Bedeutung erfasst. Ich entwickele auf dieser Basis ein Modell, in dem die semantische Ebene als integrierter Teil des konzeptuellen Systems CS definiert ist: Semantische Repräsentationen werden durch einen Filter über CS generiert; sie etablieren eine Schnittstellen-Ebene, die CSElemente sprachlichen Strukturen zugänglich macht. Das Modell, das als Elaboration des „Tripartite Parallel Architecture“-Modells (Jackendoff 1997) verstanden werden kann, differenziert sprachliche und nicht-sprachliche Bedeutungsaspekte innerhalb eines komplexen Moduls (“2 in 1”-Ansatz).
Die vorliegende Untersuchung behandelt ein spezifisches Problem aus dem Bereich des Bruchunterrichts, nämlich das Problem der Bezeichnungsweise sogenannter „gemischter Zahlen“. Wir werden – nach der Klärung der Terminologie – zunächst die relevanten Daten vorstellen, die wir den Bruchalben von Schüler(innen) einer 6.Klasse entnommen haben (Abschnitt 3). Nach der Darstellung des Fehlerphänomens werden wir dann die kognitiven Fehlerursachen analysieren:2 Die aufgefundenen Normabweichungen werden als Folge eines spezifischen „Interpretationsproblems“ diskutiert, das wir mithilfe linguistischer Analysen auf verbalsprachliche Parallelen der betreffenden Bruchzahlbezeichnungen mit Anzahlangaben zurückführen (Abschnitt 4); auf dieser Basis skizzieren wir Vorschläge für den Mathematikunterricht, die zur Bewältigung des diskutierten Problems beitragen sollen (Abschnitt 5).
Seit Frege (1891, 1892) werden generelle Termini wie „Tisch“, „Einhorn“ u.ä. logisch als Prädikate analysiert, d.h. sie werden als Begriffswörter angesehen, deren wesentliches Merkmal ihr Status als ungesättigter Ausdruck ist. Als solcher eröffnen sie eine Leerstelle für einen Argumentausdruck. Dieser muß einen Gegenstand denotieren; der so gesättigte Begriffsausdruck bezeichnet dann einen Wahrheitswert. Nach dieser Analyse werden generelle Termini somit als Bezeichnungen für Funktionen analysiert, deren Definitionsbereich Gegenstände und deren Wertebereich Wahrheitswerte sind. Ebenso wie intransitive Verben gelten sie damit als Ausdrücke, die zusammen mit einem Eigennamen einen assertorischen Satz bilden.
In the present paper, I will discuss the semantic structure of nouns and nominal number markers. In particular, I will discuss the question if it is possible to account for the syntactic and semantic formation of nominals in a parallel way, that is I will try to give a compositional account of nominal semantics. The framework that I will use is "twolevel semantics". The semantic representations and their type-theoretical basis will account for general cross-linguistic characteristics of nouns and nominal number and will show interdependencies between noun classes, number marking and cardinal constructions. While the analysis will give a unified account of bare nouns (like dog / water), it will distinguish between the different kinds of nominal terms (like a dog / dogs / water). Following the proposal, the semantic operations underlying the formation of the SR are basically the same for DPs as for CPs. Hence, from such an analysis, independent semantic arguments can be derived for a structural parallelism of nominals and sentences - that is, for the "sentential aspect" of noun phrases. I will first give a sketch of the theoretical background. I will then discuss the cross-linguistic combinatorial potential of nominal constructions, that is, the potential of nouns and number markers to combine with other elements and form complex expressions. This will lead to a general type-theoretical classification for the elements in question. In the next step, I will model the referential potential of nominal constructions. Together with the combinatorial potential, this will give us semantic representations for the basic elements involved in nominal constructions. In an overview, I will summarize our modeling of nouns and nominal number. I will then discuss in an outlook the "sentential aspect" of noun phrases.
Im Rahmen philosophisch-mathematischer Ansätze steht häufig der kardinale Aspekt natürlicher Zahlen im Vordergrund, auf den sprachlich mit Kardinal-Konstruktionen („sieben Zwerge“) referiert wird. Zahlen werden jedoch nicht nur in solchen quantitativen, sondern auch in ordinalen („der dritte Mann“) oder nominalen Kontexten („Bus Nr.129“) gebraucht. Bei einer umfassenden Analyse des Zahlkonzepts sind daher auch diese Komponenten zu berücksichtigen.
Die Bezeichnung von Anzahlen durch Numeralia und andere sprachliche Mittel ist ein universelles Charakteristikum natürlicher Sprachen, ein Sachverhalt, der bereits auf die große Bedeutung des Zahlkonzepts für das menschliche Denken hinweist: Der Begriff der Zahl, der in der Auffassung diskreter Objekte wurzelt, bildet nach neueren kognitionswissenschaftlichen Ansätzen neben dem Begriff des Raumes - der kontinuierlichen Einheit - das grundlegende Mittel zur Erfassung der Wirklichkeit.
Ich werde im folgenden einige Überlegungen zur konzeptuellen und semantischen Struktur von Numeralkonstruktionen im Deutschen anstellen, in deren Rahmen ich sowohl die Repräsentation von Zahlen und die Modellierung von Numeralkonstruktionen diskutieren als auch einige Aspekte der Schnittstelle Syntax-Semantik erhellen will. Ich führe meine Untersuchung im Rahmen des „Zwei-Ebenen-Modells“ der Semantik durch (vgl. Bierwisch 1983;1987;1988; Lang 1987; Zimmermann 1987; 1992), nehme also neben dem semantischen System SEM ein autonomes konzeptuelles System CS an, das „die mentale Form dessen, was durch sprachliche Äußerungen wiedergegeben wird, [determiniert]“ (Bierwisch 1987:6).
Auf der Grundlage der bisherigen Forschungsergebnisse zu Transfer und Interferenz wird die Übertragung sprachlichen Wissens in die Interimsprache in eine Theorie des Zweitspracherwerbs integriert. Transfer wird dabei als interlinguale Ausprägung der Generalisierung verstanden, eine Sichtweise, die die Untersuchungsergebnisse zu Bedingungen und Ursachen des Transfers in einen Erklärungszusammenhang mit anderen Phänomenen des Zweitspracherwerbs stellt. Darüberhinaus ermöglicht es diese Interpretation, eine Verbindung zu kognitiven Leistungen des Lerners beim Erstspracherwerb sowie beim Lernen überhaupt herzustellen.
I give a unified account of numeral classifiers as lexical items that are reduced to the function of individuation in cardinal counting constructions with transnumeral nouns. I argue that individuation is a lexical-semantic phenomenon that triggers a focus shift from a whole set to its individual elements, but does not affect the conceptual representation. The semantic reduction of numeral classifiers to individuation functions is, on the one hand, reflected by a morpho-syntactic reduction; numeral classifiers do not project to full NPs, but occur as headadjuncts in QPs. On the other hand, it leads to a loss of conceptual features. As a result, nouns that are used as numeral classifiers are conceptually divorced from their NP counterparts. They integrate the nominal concept not as part of their interpretation, but via agreement features that govern the distribution of nouns in classifierconstructions. I show that the selection of conceptual features relevant for the distribution of numeral classifiers and nouns is lexically, not conceptually governed, supporting a model that distinguishes lexical-semantic and conceptual aspects in the generation of meaning.
Cross-linguistically, numerals differ from other linguistic expressions in various aspects of their grammatical behavior and their acquisition. What is so special about them? I will show that a closer look at the status of numbers and numerals not only gives an answer to this question, but can also shed some light onto the syntax-semantics interface. Taking into account philosophical approaches from the foundations of mathematics, I will set forth a definition of number as a function that can be fulfilled by certain sequences. This will lead us (i) to dispense with abstract entities “numbers“ and (ii) to regard numeral sequences as sets that can function as numbers. I will show that this OCCAMiam view captures the peculiar features of numeral sequences as a reflex of their “number function”. On the other hand, the integration of number words into complex syntactic structures leads to a morpho-syntactic behavior of cardinals, ordinals and numerals in “#”-constructions that comes close to that of different word classes, depending on parallels in their semantic-conceptual structure.
The contribution of von Kempelen’s “Mechanism of Speech” to the ‘phonetic sciences‘ will be analyzed with respect to his theoretical reasoning on speech and speech production on the one hand and on the other in connection with his practical insights during his struggle in constructing a speaking machine. Whereas in his theoretical considerations von Kempelen’s view is focussed on the natural functioning of the speech organs – cf. his membraneous glottis model – in constructing his speaking machine he clearly orientates himself towards the auditory result – cf. the bag pipe model for the sound generator used for the speaking machine instead. Concerning vowel production his theoretical description remains questionable, but his practical insight that vowels and speech sounds in general are only perceived correctly in connection with their surrounding sounds – i.e. the discovery of coarticulation – is clearly a milestone in the development of the phonetic sciences: He therefore dispenses with the Kratzenstein tubes, although they might have been based on more thorough acoustic modelling. Finally, von Kempelen’s model of speech production will be discussed in relation to the discussion of the acoustic nature of vowels afterwards [Willis and Wheatstone as well as von Helmholtz and Hermann in the 19th century and Stumpf, Chiba & Kajiyama as well as Fant and Ungeheuer in the 20th century].
This study investigates supralaryngeal mechanisms of the two way voicing contrast among German velar stops and the three way contrast among Korean velar stops, both in intervocalic position. Articulatory data won via electromagnetic articulography of three Korean speakers and acoustic recordings of three Korean and three German speakers are analysed. It was found that in both languages the voicing contrast is created by more than one mechanism. However, one can say that for Korean velar stops in intervocalic position stop closure duration is the most important parameter. For German it is closure voicing. The results support the phonological description proposed by Kohler (1984).
The study investigates the contribution of tactile and auditory feedback in the adaptation of /s/ towards a palatal prosthesis. Five speakers were recorded via electromagnetic articulography, at first without the prosthesis, then with the prosthesis and auditory feedback masked, and finally with the prosthesis and auditory feedback available. Tongue position, jaw position and acoustic centre of gravity of productions of the sound were measured. The results show that the initial adaptation attempts without auditory feedback are dependent on the prosthesis type and directed towards reaching the original tongue palate contact pattern. Speakers with a prosthesis which retracted the alveolar ridge retracted the tongue. Speakers with a prosthesis which did not change the place of the alveolar ridge did not retract the tongue. All speakers lowered the jaw. In a second adaptation step with auditory feedback available speakers reorganised tongue and jaw movements in order to produce more subtle acoustic characteristics of the sound such as the high amplitude noise which is typical for sibilants.
Articulatory token-to-token variability not only depends on linguistic aspects like the phoneme inventory of a given language but also on speaker specific morphological and motor constraints. As has been noted previously (Perkell (1997), Mooshammer et al. (2004)) , speakers with coronally high "domeshaped" palates exhibit more articulatory variability than speakers with coronally low "flat" palates. One explanation for that is based on perception oriented control by the speaker. The influence of articulatory variation on the cross sectional area and consequently on the acoustics should be greater for flat palates than for domeshaped ones. This should force speakers with flat palates to place their tongue very precisely whereas speakers with domeshaped palates might tolerate a greater variability. A second explanation could be a greater amount of lateral linguo-palatal contact for flat palates holding the tongue in position. In this study both hypotheses were tested.
As has been noted previously, speakers with coronally low "flat" palates exhibit less articulatory variability than speakers with coronally high "domeshaped" palates. This phenomenon is investigated by means of a tongue model and an EPG experiment. The results show that acoustic variability depends on the shape of the vocal tract. The same articulatory variability leads to more acoustic variability if the palate is flat than if it is domeshaped. Furthermore, speakers with domeshaped palates show more articulatory variability than speakers with flat palates. The results are explained by different control strategies by the speakers. Speakers with flat palates reduce their articulatory variability in order to keep their acoustic variability low.
A two-week perturbation EMA-experiment was carried out with palatal prostheses. Articulatory effort for five speakers was assessed by means of peak acceleration and jerk during the tongue tip gestures from /t/ towards /i, e, o, y, u/. After a period of no change speakers showed an increase in these values. Towards the end of the experiment the values decreased. The results are interpreted as three phases of carrying out changes in the internal model. At first, the complete production system is shifted in relation to the palatal change, afterwards speakers explore different production mechanisms which involves more articulatory effort. This second phase can be seen as a training phase where several articulatory strategies are explored. In the third phase speakers start to select an optimal movement strategy to produce the sounds so that the values decrease.
Temporal development of compensation strategies for perturbed palate shape in German /S/-production
(2006)
The palate shape of four speakers was changed by a prosthesis which either lowered the palate or retracted the alveoles. Subjects wore the prosthesis for two weeks and were recorded several times via EMA. Results of articulatory measurements show that speakers use different compensation methods at different stages of the adaptation. They lower the tongue immediately after the insertion of the prosthesis. Other compensation methods as for example lip protrusion are only acquired after longer practising periods. The results are interpreted as supporting the existence of different mappings between motor commands, vocal tract shape and auditory-acoustic target.
Several articulatory strategies are available during the production of /u/, all resulting in a similar acoustic output. /u/ has two main constrictions, at the velum and at the lips. A perturbation of either constriction can be compensated at the other one, e.g wider constriction at the velum by more lip protrusion, wider lip opening by more tongue retraction. This study investigates whether speakers use this relation under perturbation. Six speakers were provided with palatal prostheses which were worn for two weeks. Speakers were instructed to make a serious attempt to produce normal speech. Their speech was recorded via EMA and acoustics several times over the adaptation period. Formant values of /u/-productions were measured. Velar constriction width and lip protrusion were estimated. For four speakers a correlation between constriction width and lip protrusion was found. A negative correlation between lip protrusion and F1 or F2 could sometimes be observed, but no correlation occurred between constriction size and either of the formants. The results show that under perturbation speakers use motor equivalent strategies in order to adapt. The correlation between constriction size and lip protrusion is stronger than in studies investigating unperturbed speech. This could be because under perturbation speakers are inclined to try out several strategies in order to reach the acoustic target and the co-variability might thus be greater.
Two hypotheses have been proposed in order to account for velar softening, i.e., a process through which /k/ changes to an affricate. Whereas one hypothesis states that for the process to apply the velar stop has to be realized as an (alveolo) palatal stop (articulation-based hypothesis), the other claims that velar softening is triggered by acoustic similarity between the input and output segments (acoustic equivalence hypothesis). The present paper investigates the acoustic equivalence hypothesis by comparing several acoustic properties of /k/ in various vowel contexts with those of /ts , ts , tc / for three languages differing in stop burst aspiration, i.e., German, Polish and Catalan. Results suggest that the acoustic equivalence hypothesis could account for velar softening in aspirated velar stops but not in unaspirated velar stops. The results also provide an explanation as to why aspirated velar stops are prone to undergo softening more easily when followed by front vocalic segments than in other contexts and positions
This paper shows that several typologically unrelated languages share the tendency to avoid voiced sibilant affricates. This tendency is explained by appealing to the phonetic properties of the sounds, and in particular to their aerodynamic characteristics. On the basis of experimental evidence it is shown that conflicting air pressure requirements for maintaining voicing and frication are responsible for the avoidance of voiced affricates. In particular, the air pressure released from the stop phase of the affricate is too high to maintain voicing, which in consequence leads to a devoicing of the frication part.
A model is proposed that interprets a variety of connected speech processes as resulting from prosodic modulations at different tiers of functional speech motor control along the hypo-hyper dimension [10]. The general background of the model is given by the trichotomy of A-, B- and C-prosodic phenomena [15] that together constitute the acoustic makeup of any speech utterance (with regard to their respective time domains at the uttarance/phrase level, the syllabic level and the segmental level).
Bilabial stops undergoing Surface Palatalization (SP) were analyzed in an EMMA/EPG study. Articulatorily, the point of maximal palatal contact and the labial opening movement were analyzed. The acoustic analysis pertained to stop related timing and the point of the highest F2-value. Results show (i) that SP yields a higher F2 at vowel onset and a lengthened opening gesture and (ii) that morphemeinduced palatalizations are distinguished from word initial ones and sandhi-palatalizations articulatorily and acoustically by a shorter delay of palatal target position with respect to stop production; (iii) no differences are found between ‘repalatalized’ and plain segments in case of sandhi palatalization.
Deutsche Sprache, schwere Sprache? : Einsichten aus Spracherwerbsforschung und Sprachförderung
(2009)
Sommaire Le sujet est de retour CL. NORMAND : Le sujet dans la langue CHR. PUECH: La langue, le sujet et l'institué: la linguistique dans la philosophie (Merleau-Ponty) CL. NORMAND : Linguistique et philosophie : un instantané dans l'histoire de leurs relations P. CAUSSAT : La subjectivité en question D. SAVATOVSKY : Le cogito est-il un énoncé performatif? CL. NORMAND, M.-F. TROLLEZ: Du pragmatisme à la pragmatique: Charles Morris J.-L. CHISS: La stylistique de Charles Bally: de la notion de "sujet parlant" à la théorie de l'énonciation J. MÉDINA: Charles Bally: de Bergson à Saussure M. ARRIVÉ: Signifiant saussurien et signifiant lacanien A. RADZINSKI : Lacan/Saussure: les contours théoriques d'une rencontre
The theory of basic color terms was a crucial factor in the demise of linguistic relativity. The theory is now once again under scrutiny and fundamental revision. This article details a case study that undermines one of the central claims of the classical theory, namely that languages universally treat color as a unitary domain, to be exhaustively named. Taken together with other cases, the study suggests that a number of languages have only an incipient color terminology, raising doubts about the linguistic universality of such terminology.
El presente trabajo tiene como objetivos la adecuada caracterización de la temporalidad lingüística, el análisis de sufuncionamiento en el verbo español actual y la formulación de una hipótesis que pueda expltcar, desde una perspectiva única, la diversidad de usos caracterfstrca de las formas verbales. Me he ceñido para ello al estudio de los elementos comprendidos en lo que con frecuencia se ha llamado "verbo finito" con exclusión de las formas llegare y hubiere llegado, prácticamente desaparecidas en el español de nuestros días. Reconozco la arbitrariedad que supone considerar formas como he llegado, había llegado, etc., y eliminar los tipos voy a llegar, estoy llegando y otras muchas perífrasis que podrían figurar aquí con el mismo derecho que las "formas compuestas". Mi intención ha sido examinar las características que presenta la temporalidad en el sistema básico del verbo español. Esas formas deberán ser tenidas en cuenta en un estudio total, pero creo lícito prescindir de ellas dada la finalidad de este trabajo. Aunque con propósitos ligeramente distintos, me he referido a este mismo tema en el artículo "Acerca de la temporalidad en el verbo español" (publicado en el Boletín de la Real Academia Española, LIII, 197.3, pp. 351-.375). Algunos de los puntos de vista en él contenidos deberán ser modificados a partir de lo que aquí se mantiene.
"Anything which focusses the attention is an index", schreibt Charles Sanders Peirce, der Begründer des amerikanischen Pragmatismus und Vater der modernen Semiotik in einem 1893 verfassten Kapitel seines geplanten Buches "The Art of Reasoning". Alles, was die Aufmerksamkeit ausrichtet oder erzeugt, ist ein Index. Aber was heißt hier Aufmerksamkeit? Was ist mit "ausrichten oder erzeugen" - der von mir gewählten Übersetzung für den Ausdruck "focusses" - gemeint. Und, last but not least, wie soll man den Begriff des Index fassen?
»Die Spur, von der wir sprechen«, so Derrida in der Grammatologie, ist »so wenig natürlich (sie ist nicht das Merkmal, das natürliche Zeichen oder das Indiz im Husserlschen Sinne) wie kulturell, so wenig physisch wie psychisch, so wenig biologisch wie geistig«. Wie ist aber dann die Spur, von der Derrida hier spricht, zu denken? Und vor allem: Warum soll die Spur nicht an die Begriffe des Merkmals, des natürlichen Zeichens oder des Indices anschließbar sein?
Chatten online
(2006)
Aus linguistischer Sicht besteht die "kommunikationsgeschichtliche Novität" des Chattens darin, dass Schrift „für die situationsgebundene, direkte und simultane Kommunikation" verwendet wird (Storrer 2001: 462), ohne in einem "systematischen Verhältnis zu einer vorgängigen oder nachträglichen Oralisierung" zu stehen (ebd.). Dabei ist natürlich auch von Interesse, wie die Teilnehmer des Chats miteinander Kontakt herstellen und mit welcher kommunikativen Grundhaltung die Äußerungen im Chat produziert und rezipiert werden (vgl. Beißwenger 2000: 39f.). Unter den Vorzeichen einer dezidiert medialen Fragestellung müssen darüber hinaus die performativen Übertragungs- und Verkörperungsbedingungen des Chats thematisiert werden (vgl. Wirth 2002a: 44).
What is abductive inference?
(2002)
Abductive reasoning: constitutes according to Peirce the "first stage" of scientific inquiries (CP 6.469) and of any interpretive processes. "Abduction" is the process of adopting an explanatory hypothesis (CP 5.145) and covers two operations: the selection and the formation of plausible hypotheses. As process of finding premisses, it is the basis of interpretive reconstruction of causes and intentions, as well as of inventive construction of theories.
Die Abduktion als Spiel
(2002)
Die Bewegung des Spiels als "Hin und Her" gleicht der abduktiven Bewegung des provisorischen Hypothesenaufstellens. Dies zeigt sich sowohl bei den Prozeduren und Prozessen wissenschaftlichen Rätsellösens, als auch beim freien Gedankenspiel, dem "musement", das Peirce explizit an das "ästhetische Spiel" Schillers anschließt.
In den letzten fünf Jahrzehnten kann man ein deutlich wachsendes Forschungsinteresse am Schlußmodus der Abduktion feststellen, der für Charles S. Peirce der "erste Schritt" des Schlußfolgems und Interpretierens war. So unterschiedliche Fachgebiete wie Philosophie, Wissenschaftstheorie, Soziologie, Unguistik, Literaturwissenschaft, Semiotik sowie neuerdings die Künstliche-Intelligenz-Forschung versuchen in zunehmendem Maße mit Bezug auf abduktives Folgem die Möglichkeiten einer Reformulierung ihrer einzelwissenschaftlichen Problemzusammenhänge zu nutzen. Vielleicht könnte man sogar von einer "abduktiven Wende" des Denkens sprechen. Dabei zeigt sich, daß die Erforschung der Abduktion auf einzigartige Weise Gelegenheit bietet, unter einem einheitlichen Aspekt interdisziplinär zu arbeiten.
1991 erschien eine von Asa Kasher herausgegebene Aufsatzsammlung mit dem Titel "The Chomskyan Turn", die eine Bestandsaufnahme der vierzigjährigen Beschäftigung mit der generativen Grammatiktheorie ist. Ähnlich wie Kants "Kopernikanische Wende" die Transzendentalphilosophie zum Maßstab allen künftigen Philosophierens werden ließ, revolutionierte der "Chomskyan Turn" die linguistische Perspektive. Worin besteht nun der epochale Perspektivenwechsel, der die Verwendung des Ausdrucks "Chomskyan Turn" gerechtfertigt erscheinen läßt? In erster Linie betrifft dies die mittlerweile hinlänglich bekannte Abkehr Chomskys von strukturalistischen und induktiven Grammatikansätzen, die auf Beschreibungs- oder Verallgemeinerungskonzepten beruhen. Stattdessen propagiert Chomsky eine Universalgrammatik, die es aufgrund der Annahme universaler und einzelsprachspezifischer Regeln erlaubt, den Spracherwerb und den "grammatischen Instinkt" bei der Wahl wohlgeformter Sätze zu erklären.
This paper discusses constructions like “We’ll have two beers and a coffee.” that are typically used for beverage orders in restaurant contexts. We compare the behaviour of nouns in these constructions in three Germanic languages, English, Icelandic, and German, and take a closer look at the correlation of the morpho-syntactic and semantic-conceptual changes involved here. We show that even within such a closely related linguistic sample, one finds three different grammatical options for the expression of the same conceptual transition. Our findings suggest an analysis of coercion as a genuinely semantic phenomenon, a phenomenon that is located on a level of semantic representations that serves as an interface between the conceptual and the grammatical system and takes into account inter- and intralinguistic variations.
Der Beitrag behandelt diminuierte Partikeln, etwa „Hallöchen“, „Tschüssi“ oder „Jaui“. Die Diminuierung von Partikeln durch -chen und -i ist ein produktives und häufig auftretendes Phänomen im Deutschen, wird in grammatischen Beschreibungen jedoch weitgehend vernachlässigt; diese konzentrieren sich in erster Linie auf nominale Kontexte der Diminuierung. Betrachtet man jedoch die vollständige Distribution von -chen und -i, so ergibt sich ein interessantes Problem für die morphologische Beschreibung, da sie auf einen hybriden Status der Suffixe zwischen Kopf und Modifikator hinweist. Ich diskutiere die Implikationen dieses Befundes für die Charakterisierung des morphologischen Systems und zeige, dass ein verbindendendes Moment der Distribution auf der morphopragmatischen Ebene liegt, nämlich in der Expressivität von Diminutivsuffixen. Im Fall diminuierter Partikeln geht dies so weit, dass der Bedeutungsbeitrag ein rein pragmatischer ist, auf Kosten der semantischen Komponente. Ich zeige, dass die Diminuierung von Grußpartikeln wie „Tschüssi“ zudem wesentlich durch einen metrischen Aspekt motiviert ist, nämlich die Anpassung an das in Grüßen vorherrschende trochäische Muster, das durch die Diminutivsuffigierung ermöglicht wird, und argumentiere, dass diese metrische Anpassung durch den Status von Grüßen als sozialen Ritualen ausgelöst wird. Partikeldiminuierung weist damit auf ein komplexes Zusammenspiel grammatischer, pragmatischer und genereller kognitiver Aspekte hin.
„Ich mach dich Messer“ ist eine jugendsprachliche Wendung, die als ritualisierte Drohung im Sinne von „Ich greife dich mit einem Messer an.“ zu verstehen ist. Diese Wendung, bei der sowohl die semantische Bleichung („semantic bleaching“) des Verbs als auch das Fehlen des Determinierers in der NP auffällt, verweist auf Merkmale morpho-syntaktischer Reduktion, wie man sie häufig in Kontaktsprachen findet. Wie ich zeigen werde, handelt es sich hierbei jedoch nicht um eine bloße sprachliche Simplifizierung, sondern um ein komplexes und produktives grammatisches Phänomen: In „Ich mach dich Messer“ manifestiert sich ein spezifisches Zusammenwirken syntaktischer und semantischer Phänomene, das ich im folgenden als sprachliche Arbeitsteilung nach dem Muster von Funktionsverbgefügen beschreiben werde.
Humans possess a number concept that differs from its predecessors in animal cognition in two crucial respects: (1) it is based on a numerical sequence whose elements are not confined to quantitative contexts, but can indicate cardinal/quantitative as well as ordinal and even nominal properties of empirical objects (e.g. ‘five buses’: cardinal; ‘the fifth bus’: ordinal; ‘the #5 bus’: nominal), and (2) it can involve recursion and, via recursion, discrete infinity. In contrast to that, the predecessors of numerical cognition that we find in animals and human infants rely on finite and iconic representations that are limited to cardinality and do not support a unified concept of number. In this paper, I argue that the way such a unified number concept could evolve in humans is via verbal sequences that are employed as numerical tools, that is, sequences of words whose elements are associated with empirical objects in number assignments. In particular, I show that a certain kind of number words, namely the counting sequences of natural languages, can be characterised as a central instance of verbal numerical tools. I describe a possible scenario for the emergence of such verbal numerical tools in human history that starts from iconic roots and that suggests that in a process of co-evolution, the gradual emergence of counting sequences and the development of an increasingly comprehensive number concept supported each other. On this account, it is language that opened the way for numerical cognition, suggesting that it is no accident that the same species that possesses the language faculty as a unique trait, should also be the one that developed a systematic concept of number.
Speakers of various Southern german dialects may be heard to use two syntactic variants of subordinate clauses which are represented by the following Swabian examples: (1) daß er den net will komme lasse (2) daß er den net komme lasse will Of these two variants of the three-element verbal complex, only the non-dialect counterpart of (2) is accepted as standard modern written German: (3) daß er ihn nicht kommen lassen will In earlier periods of the German language, however, both variants were used by authors of written texts.