03375nam 2200613 a 450 991082875340332120240516042020.090-272-8717-197866130594131-283-05941-X(CKB)2550000000032466(OCoLC)726828718(CaPaEBR)ebrary10463019(SSID)ssj0000469983(PQKBManifestationID)12213423(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000469983(PQKBWorkID)10531519(PQKB)10835176(MiAaPQ)EBC680186(Au-PeEL)EBL680186(CaPaEBR)ebr10463019(CaONFJC)MIL305941(OCoLC)713010209(EXLCZ)99255000000003246620101209d2011 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrHistory of linguistics 2008 selected papers from the 11th International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHOLS XI), Potsdam, 28 August-2 September 2008 /edited by Gerda Hassler ; with the assistance of Gesina Volkmann1st ed.Amsterdam ;Philadelphia [Pa.] John Benjamins Pub. Co.20111 online resource (484 p.) Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series III, Studies in the history of the language sciences ;v. 115Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph90-272-4606-8 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.pt. 1. Methodological considerations, linguistics and philology -- pt. 2. Antiquity -- pt. 3. Renaissance linguistics -- pt. 4. Seventeenth and eighteenth century -- pt. 5. Nineteenth and twentieth centuries.This paper aims at presenting Harris' use of information theory as a specific case of transfer of mathematical concepts and methods into linguistics. First, it will show that distributional analysis had characteristics which made it particu­larly receptive to some aspects of information theory, such as the special status of repe­tition and the treatment of linguistic elements as physical events. Second, this paper will show how Harris gradually incorporated the notions of information theory and methods to address new issues in his own theory: from the identification and classi­fication of linguistic units to the analysis of redundant patterns in utterances and in discourses, and finally to the ultimate objective of developing an information grammar for the sublanguages of sciences. Thus, infor­mation, at first a pure quan­titative entity, underwent a semantic turn when Harris adapted it for linguistic ob­jec­tives.Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science.Series III,Studies in the history of the language sciences ;v. 115.LinguisticsHistoryCongressesLinguisticsHistory410.9Hassler Gerda455279Volkmann Gesina1662418International Conference on the History of the Language SciencesMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910828753403321History of linguistics 20084019094UNINA