Prospects for a new structuralism (John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1992)
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
PROSPECTS FOR A NEW STRUCTURALISM; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Foreword; Table of contents; Prospects for a New Structuralism: Introduction; I. PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES; An Interactionist Position; The Case for a New Structuralism; II. FRAMEWORKS; Classical Structuralism and Present-day Praguian Linguistics; Noematic grammar; The Functional Model of UNITYP Dimensions; Integrational Linguistics: Outline of a Theory of Language; III. AREAS; A New Structuralism in Phonology; The Structuralist Heritage in Natural Morphology; What are Language Histories Histories of?; Index of Names
This volume, which has partly grown from a Round Table at the XIVth International Congress of Linguists, argues for a large amount of underlying unity in outlook among different frameworks in present-day linguistics: the contemporary Prague School; the Noematic approach; the UNITYP model; Integrational Linguistics; Natural Morphology; much recent work in phonology; and Popperian Interactionism as applied, in particular, to historical linguistics. Section I discusses philosophical issues such as realism vs. cognitivism; Section II characterizes current frameworks; and Section III deals with ind