Foundations of Linguistic
Theory
語言學理論本質
Fall
2017 Monday
14:10-17:00
文學院413
課碼: 1309003
Research & Writing links
Fall 2011 Foundations class
Fall 2013 Foundations class
Fall 2015 Foundations class
UPDATED 2017/10/17
James Myers
(麥傑)
Office: 文學院247
Tel: 31506
Email: Lngmyers at the university address
Web: http://personal.ccu.edu.tw/~lngmyers/
Office hours: Monday 10 am - 12 noon, or by appointment (made at least one day
ahead)
Goals
You have already had experience with linguistic theory and linguistic analysis. Now we'll put this experience into philosophical and historical context, and practice the logic of linguistic argumentation at a higher level.
Evaluation
30% Participation (saying interesting stuff in the discussions)
40% Discussion leading (two leaders per week)
20% Presentation of own research (one hour; last two weeks of class)
10% Journal submission (must show editor's acknowledgment of receipt of
manuscript)
Discussion readings
Aarsleff, H. (1970). The history of linguistics and Professor Chomsky. Language, 46(3), 570-585.
Adger, D. (2015a). Mythical myths: Comments on Vyvyan Evans' "The Language Myth". Lingua, 158, 76-80.
Adger, D. (2015b). More misrepresentation: A response to Behme and Evans 2015. Lingua, 162, 160-166.
Alkon, P. K. (1959). Behaviourism and linguistics: an historical note. Language and Speech, 2(1), 37-51.
Aristotle. (340 BCE a). On the heavens, Book II, parts 13-14. Translated 1922 by J. L. Stocks, Clarendon.
Aristotle. (350 BCE b). On interpretation. Translated by E. M. Edghill.
Bacon, F. (1620). Novum organum, preface. Translated 1863 by James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, and Douglas Denon Heath.
Baggio, G., Van Lambalgen, M., & Hagoort, P. (2012). Language, linguistics and cognition. In R. Kempson, T. Fernando, and N. Asher (Eds), Philosophy of linguistics (pp. 325-355). Amsterdam: Elsevier.
Behme, C., & Evans, V. (2015). Leaving the myth behind: A reply to Adger (2015). Lingua, 162, 149-159.
Bloomfield, L. (1944). Secondary and tertiary responses to language. Language, 20(2), 45-55.
Chomsky, N. (1959). Verbal behavior. By B. F. Skinner. Language, 35(1), 26-58.
Fleisch, H. (1994). Arabic linguistics. In G. Lepschy (ed.), History of linguistics: Volume I: The Eastern traditions of linguistics (pp. 164-184). London: Longman.
Greene, J. C. (1974). The history of science and the history of linguistics. In D. Hymes (Ed.) Studies in the history of linguistics: Traditions and paradigms (pp. 487-501). Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Haspelmath, M. (2011). The language system is abstract but cannot be understood without its social functions. Theoretical Linguistics, 37(1-2), 45-50.
Hoenigswald, H. M. (1974). Fallacies in the history of linguistics: Notes on the appraisal of the nineteenth century. In D. Hymes (Ed.) Studies in the history of linguistics: Traditions and paradigms (pp. 347-359). Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Jackendoff, R. (2015). In defense of theory. Cognitive Science, 41(S2), 185-212.
Kulikov, L. (2013). Language vs. grammatical tradition in Ancient India: How real was Pāṇinian Sanskrit? Folia Linguistica Historica, 34, 59-91.
Lidz, J., & Gagliardi, A. (2015). How nature meets nurture: Universal grammar and statistical learning. Annual Review of Linguistics, 1(1), 333-353.
Malmqvist, G. (1994). Chinese linguistics. In G. Lepschy (Ed.) History of linguistics: Volume I: The Eastern traditions of linguistics (pp. 1-24). London: Longman.
Matthews, S. (1996). Y. R. Chao and universal Chinese grammar. In D. Cram, A. Linn, & E. Nowak (Eds.) History of linguistics 1996, Volume 1: Traditions in linguistics worldwide (pp. 217-224). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Myers, J. (2012). Cognitive styles in two cognitive sciences. In N. Miyake, D. Peebles, & R. P. Cooper (Eds.), Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2067-2072). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Needham, J. (1993). Poverties and triumphs of the Chinese scientific tradition. In S. Harding (Ed.) The "racial" economy of science: Toward a democratic future (pp. 30-56). Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Newmeyer, F. J. (2011). The Stokhof-van Lambalgen paradox resolved. Theoretical Linguistics, 37(1-2), 63-68.
Silverstein, M. (2001). The limits of awareness. In A. Duranti (Ed.) Linguistic anthropology: A reader (pp. 382-401). Oxford, UK: Blackwell.
Slabakova, R. (2013). Adult second language acquisition: A selective overview with a focus on the learner linguistic system. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 3(1), 48-72.
Stokhof, M., & Van Lambalgen, M. (2011). Abstractions and idealisations: The construction of modern linguistics. Theoretical Linguistics, 37(1-2), 1-26.
Wray, A. (2017). The language of dementia science and the science of dementia language: Linguistic interpretations of an interdisciplinary research field. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 36(1), 80-95.
Schedule [there may be changes along the way]
Readings must be done prior to class. Discussion leaders should actively guide the discussion, using a handout of questions that encourage us to explore the ideas in the readings. Don't lecture us: The more you encourage other people to express their thoughts, the better!
|
Week |
Topic |
Discussion readings |
Leader |
|
9/18 |
Approaches to linguistics |
Myers |
|
|
9/25 |
History and philosophy of science |
Aristotle
(350 BCE a) |
涵德HT 珮文PW 維東VT 慕愔MY |
|
10/2 |
Folk linguistics |
Bloomfield
(1944) |
曉音HY 曉音HY |
|
10/9 |
[Long weekend for 10/10?] |
|
|
|
10/16 |
Non-Western linguistics |
Kulikov
(2013) |
Josue 珮文PW |
|
10/23 |
[James away at a conference]* |
|
|
|
10/30 |
Chinese linguistics |
Malmqvist
(1994) |
涵德HT 曉音HY |
|
11/6 |
History of Western linguistics |
Aristotle
(350 BCE b) |
維東VT 維東VT 珮文PW |
|
11/13 |
Discuss research progress |
|
|
|
11/20 |
Generative linguistics |
Chomsky
(1959) |
維東VT Josue |
|
11/27 |
What is modern linguistics about? |
Stokhof
& van Lambalgen (2011) |
慕愔MY 曉音HY 涵德HT |
|
12/4 |
Language and cognition |
Baggio et
al. (2012) |
Josue 涵德HT |
|
12/11 |
Universals and nativism |
Adger
(2015a) Adger
(2015b) |
珮文PW 慕愔MY 慕愔MY 雨萱YH |
|
12/18 |
Applications of linguistic theory |
Slabakova
(2013) |
Josue Myers |
|
12/25 |
Presentations I |
|
|
|
1/1 |
[1/1: NO CLASS] |
|
|
|
1/8 |
Presentations II [last class] |
|
|
|
1/15 |
Journal acknowledgment due |
|
|
* To make up this class, you must visit me in my office to discuss the class and/or your own research, anytime during the semester.