In:Essays on Linguistic Realism:
Edited by Christina Behme and Martin Neef
[Studies in Language Companion Series 196] 2018
► pp. v–vi
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Published online: 26 July 2018
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Table of contents
Introduction to ‘Essays on Linguistic Realism’
VII
Christina Behme
Martin Neef
Chapter 1.The ontology of natural language
1
Paul M. Postal
Chapter 2.What kind of science is linguistics?
7
David Pitt
Chapter 3.‘Biolinguistics’: some foundational problems
21
Robert Levine
Chapter 4.The relevance of realism for language evolution theorizing
61
Christina Behme
Chapter 5.Describing linguistic objects in a realist way
79
Hans Heinrich Lieb
Chapter 6.Languages and other abstract structures
139
Ryan M. Nefdt
Chapter 7.Autonomous Declarative Phonology: A realist approach to the phonology of German
185
Martin Neef
Chapter 8.Explaining linguistic facts in a realist theory of word formation
203
Andreas Nolda
Chapter 9.Cognitive propositions in realist linguistics
235
Scott Soames
Chapter 10.Languages as complete and distinct systems of reference
255
D. Terence Langendoen
Chapter 11.The so-called arbitrariness of linguistic signs and Saussure’s ‘realism’
271
Armin Burkhardt
Index
297
