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Lingg 206: Grammatical Analysis I Angelina A. Aquino
Lingg 206: Grammatical Analysis I Angelina A. Aquino
Angelina A. Aquino
I. What is structuralism?
- Saussure: background and key concepts
II. European tradition
- Schools of linguistics: Geneva, Prague, Copenhagen
- Other works: Guillaume, Tesnière, Firth
III. American tradition
- Anthropology and linguistics: Boas, Sapir
- Bloomfield: background and key concepts
- Post-Bloomfieldian linguistics
IV. Applications to Philippine languages
Introductory videos
- phonology
- phonemes as differential units; distinctive-feature analysis
- theory of markedness
- presence or absence of features; extended to morphology, syntax
1. referential
2. poetic
3. emotive
4. conative
5. phatic
6. metalingual
- notable members:
- Louis Hjelmslev, Viggo Brøndal, Hans Jørgen Uldall
- glossematics
- language = content plane + expression plane
- glosseme as smallest meaningful unit
- language is not conveyed through sound
alone (multimodality)
- Gustave Guillaume
- cognitive system (tense, aspect, and mood) in verbs
- psychomechanics (dimensions of language) and word categorization
- Lucien Tesnière
- valency: arguments (subject, object, oblique) of predicate (verb)
- dependency grammar
- John Rupert Firth
- collocation: “You shall know a word by the company it keeps.”
- prosody: syntagmatic components of phonology
- initially founded on anthropological research
- notable figures: Franz Boas, Edward Sapir
- study of indigenous American languages
- Edward Sapir
- classification of American indigenous languages (1929)
- development of the phoneme, distributional analysis
- different languages representing different social realities
- Benjamin Lee Whorf
“We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language.”
- 1887-1949, American linguist
- initially studied German and Indo-European philology
- taught at Cincinnati, Illinois, Ohio State, Chicago, and Yale
- “Language” (1933)
- sentence as the ‘maximum construction of an utterance’,
a linguistic form which is not part of any larger linguistic form
- words as formally (no longer conceptually) independent elements
- system of “emic” units
lexical grammatical
pheneme phoneme taxeme - primitive feature
glosseme morpheme tagmeme - smallest meaningful unit
noeme sememe episememe - meaning of unit
- Tagmemes in grammar
- A tagmemic grammar of Ivatan (Hidalgo & Hidalgo, 1971)
- A description of Hiligaynon syntax (Wolfenden, 1975)
P. H. Matthews (1993). Grammatical Theory in the United States from Bloomfield to Chomsky. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
G. Graffi (2015). History of Linguistics Handout 2 – Linguistics in the first half of the 20th century. Available:
http://www.dcuci.univr.it/documenti/OccorrenzaIns/matdid/matdid746212.pdf
L. A. Reid (1981). Philippine linguistics: The state of the art: 1970–1980. In Philippine studies: Political science, economics, and linguistics, ed. by Donn V. Hart,
212-273. Available: https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/10125/33024/1/A22.1981.pdf
Additional references:
L. de Saussure (2006). Geneva School of Linguistics after Saussure. In Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics 2nd ed. 5:24-25. Oxford: Elsevier.
J. R. Firth (1957). A synopsis of linguistic theory 1930-1955. In Studies in Linguistic Analysis 1:1-32. Oxford: Blackwell.
L. Bloomfield (1926). A set of postulates for the science of language. In Language 2(3):153-164. Available: https://www.jstor.org/stable/408741