Autor: F. Kiefer

In almost all principled accounts of questions questions are related to the corresponding answers. Zellig Harris (Harris 1978:1), for example, maintains that" … all interrogative sentences can …

In the study of language, as in any other systematic study, there is no neutral terminology. Every technical term is an expression of the assumptions and theoretical presuppositions of its users; and …

In the last decade a profound change has occurred in linguistic science. Not only have old problems been tackled from an entirely new point of view but also quite a few new fields of linguistic resea …

The present volume is intended to give an overall picture of research in pro- gress in the field of generative grammar in various parts of Europe. The term ‘generative grammar’ must, however, be unde …

o. Theoretical linguistics is a term not very often used in Soviet Linguistics. The terms ‘structural linguistics’, ‘mathematical linguistics’, ‘applied lin- guistics’ (which, incidentally, has anoth …

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