Functionalism from Martinet to Dik, Croft and Danish Functional Linguistics
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Functionalism from Martinet to Dik, Croft and Danish Functional Linguistics. / Harder, Peter.
Structuralism as one - structuralism as many: Studies in Structuralisms. red. / Lorenzo Cigana; Frans Gregersen. Bind 21 København : Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab, 2023. s. 289-315 (Scientia Danica, Series H, Humanistica; Nr. 8, Bind 21).Publikation: Bidrag til bog/antologi/rapport › Bidrag til bog/antologi › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Functionalism from Martinet to Dik, Croft and Danish Functional Linguistics
AU - Harder, Peter
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - To most observers, function and structure may come cross as opposites within linguistics. This article aims to show how (especially one strand of) functionalism can accommodate the valid insights of the structural tradition (without taking over its reliance on structure as the beall and end-all of linguistic description). The argument takes its point of departure in an analysis of three aspects of the concept of structure: its association with (respectively) ‘autonomy’, the opposition to ‘substance’, and ‘supra-individual’ properties. Of these, the last aspect points to features of language where function and structure overlap: Both structural and functional properties of an object of description arise in relation to features outside the element in itself. This is central to the European linguistic tradition, including present-day Danish functional linguistics. This approach is compared to other linguistic perspectives on function and structure.
AB - To most observers, function and structure may come cross as opposites within linguistics. This article aims to show how (especially one strand of) functionalism can accommodate the valid insights of the structural tradition (without taking over its reliance on structure as the beall and end-all of linguistic description). The argument takes its point of departure in an analysis of three aspects of the concept of structure: its association with (respectively) ‘autonomy’, the opposition to ‘substance’, and ‘supra-individual’ properties. Of these, the last aspect points to features of language where function and structure overlap: Both structural and functional properties of an object of description arise in relation to features outside the element in itself. This is central to the European linguistic tradition, including present-day Danish functional linguistics. This approach is compared to other linguistic perspectives on function and structure.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - autonomy, evolution, convention, ontology, structure
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 978-87-7304-447-6
VL - 21
T3 - Scientia Danica, Series H, Humanistica
SP - 289
EP - 315
BT - Structuralism as one - structuralism as many
A2 - Cigana, Lorenzo
A2 - Gregersen, Frans
PB - Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab
CY - København
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