In:Limiting the Arbitrary: Linguistic naturalism and its opposites in Plato's Cratylus and modern theories of language
John E. Joseph
[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences 96] 2000
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Published online: 15 October 2000
https://doi.org/10.1075/sihols.96.toc
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Table of contents
Forewordvii
Introduction
Natural and Unnatural Language1
Part one: cratylus
1. Nature and Convention: Cratylus 383a1–391d113
2. Words and Truth: Cratylus 391d2–422e139
3. Imitation and Essence: Cratylus 422e1–440e159
Part two: after cratylus
4. Natural Grammar and Conventional Words, from Aristotle to Pinker93
5. Natural Dialect and Artificial Language, from Varro to Chomsky141
6. Invisible Hierarchies, from Jakobson to Optimality Theory169
Afterword
Linguistics after Naturalism201
References205
Index217
