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The Legacy of Zellig Harris
Language and information into the 21st century
Volume 1: Philosophy of science, syntax and semantics
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Zellig Harris opened many lines of research in language, information, and culture, from generative grammar to informatics, from mathematics to language pedagogy. An international array of scholars here describe further developments and relate this work to that of others. Volume 1 begins with a survey article by Harris himself, previously unavailable in English. T.A. Ryckman, Paul Mattick, Maurice Gross, and Francis Lin show the importance of Harris's methodology for philosophy of science, the first two with reference especially to his remarkable findings on the form of information in science. Themes of discourse and sublanguage analysis are developed further in chapters by Michael Gottfried, James Munz, Robert Longacre, and Carlota Smith. Morris Salkoff, Peter Seuren, and Lila Gleitman present diverse developments in syntax and semantics. Phonology is represented in chapters by Leigh Lisker and by Frank Harary and Stephen Helmreich. Daythal Kendall applies operator grammar to literary analysis of Sapir's Takelma texts, and Fred Lukoff's chapter describes benefits of string analysis for language pedagogy.
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 228] 2002. xxxv, 323 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 21 October 2008
Published online on 21 October 2008
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- ForewordBruce E. Nevin | p. ix
- Acknowledgements | pp. xxxv–35
- The background of transformational and metalanguage analysisZellig S. Harris | pp. 1–15
- Part I. Philosophy of science
- 1. Method and theory in Harris’s Grammar of InformationTom A. Ryckman | pp. 19–37
- 2. Some implications of Zellig Harris’s work for the philosophy of sciencePaul Mattick | pp. 39–55
- 3. Consequences of the metalanguage being included in the languageMaurice Gross | pp. 57–67
- 4. On Discovery ProceduresFrancis Lin | pp. 69–86
- Part 2. Discourse and sublanguage analysis
- 5. Grammatical specification of scientific sublanguagesMichael Gottfried | pp. 89–101
- 6. Classifiers and referenceJames Munz | pp. 103–116
- 7. Some implications of Zellig Harris’s discourse analysisRobert E. Longacre | pp. 117–135
- 8. Accounting for subjectivity (point of view)Carlota S. Smith | pp. 137–163
- Part 3. Syntax and semantics
- 9. Some new results on Transfer GrammarMorris Salkoff | pp. 167–178
- 10. Pseudoarguments and pseudocomplementsPieter A.M. Seuren | pp. 179–207
- 11. Verbs of a feather flock together II: The child’s discovery of words and their meaningsLila Gleitman | pp. 209–229
- Part IV. Phonology
- 12. The voiceless unaspirated stops of EnglishLeigh Lisker | pp. 233–240
- 13. On the bipartite distribution of phonemesFrank Harary and Stephen Helmreich | pp. 241–258
- Part V. Applications
- 14. Operator grammar and the poetic form of Takelma textsDaythal Kendall | pp. 261–278
- 15. A practical application of string analysisFred Lukoff | pp. 279–304
- Zellig Sabbettai Harris: A comprehensive bibliography of his writings, 1932-2003E.F.K. Koerner | pp. 305–316
- Name index | pp. 317–318
- Subject index | pp. 319–323
“All of the areas of Harris's linguistic work are covered in these volumes, and a careful reading of them leaves the reader with the conclusion that there is no way to understand American linguistic theory through the second half of the twentieth century without understanding Harris's thought.”
John Goldsmith, University of Chicago, in Language Vol. 81:3 (2005)
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Nevin, Bruce
2020. A letter from Zellig Harris to André Lentin. Historiographia Linguistica 47:2-3 ► pp. 303 ff.
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Graffi, Giorgio
2016. Harris, Chomsky and the origins of transformational grammar. Lingvisticae Investigationes 39:1 ► pp. 48 ff.
Leeman, Danielle
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