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Limiting the arbitrary : linguistic naturalism and its opposites in Plato's Cratylus and the modern theories of language
- Title
- Limiting the arbitrary : linguistic naturalism and its opposites in Plato's Cratylus and the modern theories of language / John E. Joseph.
- Author
- Joseph, John Earl.
- Publication
- Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins Pub. Co., [2000], ©2000.
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Details
- Description
- viii, 224 pages; 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series III, Studies in the history of the language sciences, 0304-0720 ; v. 96
- Uniform Title
- Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series III, Studies in the history of the language sciences ; v. 96.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-216) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Natural and Unnatural Language -- Pt. 1. Cratylus. Ch. 1. Nature and Convention: Cratylus 383a1-391d1. Ch. 2. Words and Truth: Cratylus 391d2-422e1. Ch. 3. Imitation and Essence: Cratylus 422e1-440e7 -- Pt. 2. After Cratylus. Ch. 4. Natural Grammar and Conventional Words, from Aristotle to Pinker. Ch. 5. Natural Dialect and Artificial Language, from Varro to Chomsky. Ch. 6. Invisible Hierarchies, from Jakobson to Optimality Theory. Afterword: Linguistics after Naturalism.
- ISBN
- 1556197497 (alk. paper)
- 9027245851 (Eur.)
- LCCN
- 00062112
- OCLC
- ocm44727847
- SCSB-4017715
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries