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200 10$aLimiting the arbitrary $elinguistic naturalism and its opposites in Plato's Cratylus and modern theories of language /$fJohn E. Joseph
205   $a1st ed.
210   $aPhiladelphia, Pa. $cJohn Benjamins Pub. Co.$dc2000
215   $aviii, 224 p
225 1 $aAmsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series III, Studies in the history of the language sciences,$x0304-0720 ;$vv. 96
300   $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
311   $a90-272-4585-1 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [205]-216) and index.
327   $apt. 1. Cratylus -- pt. 2. After Cratylus.
330   $aThe idea that some aspects of language are 'natural', while others are arbitrary, artificial or derived, runs all through modern linguistics, from Chomsky's GB theory and Minimalist program and his concept of E- and I-language, to Greenberg's search for linguistic universals, Pinker's views on regular and irregular morphology and the brain, and the markedness-based constraints of Optimality Theory. This book traces the heritage of this linguistic naturalism back to its locus classicus, Plato's dialogue Cratylus. The first half of the book is a detailed examination of the linguistic arguments in the Cratylus. The second half follows three of the dialogue's naturalistic themes through subsequent linguistic history - natural grammar and conventional words, from Aristotle to Pinker; natural dialect and artificial language, from Varro to Chomsky; and invisible hierarchies, from Jakobson to Optimality Theory - in search of a way forward beyond these seductive yet spurious and limiting dichotomies.
410  0$aAmsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science.$nSeries III,$pStudies in the history of the language sciences ;$vv. 96.
606   $aLanguage and languages$xPhilosophy
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