Linguistics: Approaches
Fabb, Nigel; Brown, Keith, ed. (2006) Linguistics: Approaches. In: Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Elsevier, pp. 240-245. ISBN 0-08-044299-4
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Functionalist and formalist approaches agree that linguistic form exists, but disagree on its autonomy. Rationalist and empiricist approaches place different weights on linguistic data as opposed to theory. Approaches can tend more towards holism or more towards modularity. Form can be organized – particularly in generative linguistics – by rules, constraints on rules, and constraints on outputs; the balance of these has varied among approachestolinguistics. Approaches can disagree over which subfield of linguistics best explains a certain type of linguistic fact.
| Creators(s): |
Fabb, Nigel  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4820-7612;
Brown, Keith
| Item type: | Book Section |
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| ID code: | 40022 |
| Keywords: | autonomy, transformational rule , Chomsky , rationalism , empiricism, formalism , functionalism, English |
| Subjects: | Language and Literature > English |
| Department: | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > School of Humanities > English |
| Depositing user: | Pure Administrator |
| Date deposited: | 13 Jun 2012 11:47 |
| Last modified: | 09 Aug 2020 02:14 |
| URI: | https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/40022 |
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