Framework-Free Grammatical Theory

By Martin Haspelmath. 2009

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Framework-free grammatical description/analysis and explanation is argued here to be superior to framework-bound analysis because all languages have different catgeories, and languages should be described in their own terms. Frameworks represent aprioristic assumptions that are likely to lead to a distorted description of a language. I argue against restrictive theoretical frameworks of the generative type, against frameworks of functional approaches such as Functional Grammar and Role and Reference Grammar, and against Basic Linguistic Theory.

Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Language and Linguistics

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