Béatrice Godart-Wendling
List of John Benjamins publications in which Béatrice Godart-Wendling is involved.
2016 Presupposition and implicitness in the 20th century: From logic to linguistics History of Linguistics 2014: Selected papers from the 13th International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS XIII), Vila Real, Portugal, 25–29 August 2014, Assunção, Carlos, Gonçalo Fernandes and Rolf Kemmler (eds.), pp. 257–268 | Article
In the 1970s, when linguists began to inventory the various forms of presupposition in natural languages, they classified them under the heading of implicitness. With this classification, linguists carried out a profound shift in the analysis of presupposition that began with Frege in 1892. We… read more
2014 Looking for a semantic theory: The path taken by Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz (1931–1960) History of Linguistics 2011: Selected Papers from the 12th International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS XII), Saint Petersburg, 28 August - 2 September 2011, Kasevich, Vadim, Yuri A. Kleiner and Patrick Sériot (eds.), pp. 137–144 | Article
In the early 1930s, the Polish philosopher and logician Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz (1890–1963) proposed a new formal approach to natural language which, unlike Chomsky’s, was based on a joint calculus of the grammaticality and meaning of sentences. This methodological choice, which resulted from… read more
2014 L’hypothèse de Firth: Wittgenstein, héritier de Malinowski? Historiographia Linguistica 41:1, pp. 79–108 | Article
Le but de cet article est d’évaluer l’hypothèse de John Rupert Firth (1890–1960) énonçant que l’article de l’anthropologue Bronislaw Malinowski (1884–1942), “The Problem of Meaning in Primitive Languages” (1923), constituerait une des sources d’inspiration ayant conduit Ludwig Wittgenstein… read more
2014 Emotions: Various “language-games” which open the door
to grammar* Linguistic Approaches to Emotions in Context, Baider, Fabienne H. and Georgeta Cislaru (eds.), pp. 21–38 | Article
The aim of this paper is to point out that the semantic analysis of the language of emotions contributed from the thirties onwards to the emergence of analytic philosophy. Based on Wittgenstein’ s thought that fuelled this return to the observation of ordinary language, this study shows that the… read more
2011 When categories go back to parts of speech History of Linguistics 2008: Selected papers from the eleventh International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS XI), 28 August - 2 September 2008, Potsdam, Haßler, Gerda (ed.), pp. 399–407 | Article
Faced with the complexity of natural languages, contemporary categorial grammars have significantly increased the number of their basic categories. With such a theoretical choice, the notion of category becomes a black box which no longer clarifies the dependent relationships linking the different… read more
2007 La preuve de Gaifman: Réflexions sur la méthode de construction des grammaires catégorielles History of Linguistics 2005: Selected papers from the Tenth International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHOLS X), 1–5 September 2005, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, Kibbee, Douglas A. (ed.), pp. 432–440 | Article
In 1959, Gaifman proved that category grammars were the equivalents of phrasal grammars, so much so that they could never have the expressive power for representing the complexity of natural languages. As a consequence, no new category model was proposed for more than thirty years. Nevertheless, we… read more
1999 Mais que fait Bar-Hillel quand "le soleil siffle"? History of Linguistics 1996: Volume 2: From Classical to Contemporary Linguistics, Cram, David, Andrew R. Linn and Elke Nowak (eds.), pp. 321–330 | Chapter
1999 De l’ubiquité de l’ordre dans les premières grammaires catégorielles Historiographia Linguistica 26:3, pp. 383–405 | Article
Parmi les différences qui opposent les deux grands courants de grammaires formelles du XXe siècle, celles qui concernent le traitement de l’ordre des mots sont restées jusqu’à aujourd’hui peu traitées. Pourtant, les premières grammaires catégorielles (de 1935 à 1959) présentent une conception de… read more
1990 Review of Jayez (1988): L’inférence en langue naturelle Lingvisticæ Investigationes 14:1, pp. 196–206 | Review