Investigations of Explanatory Strategies in Linguistics / / Lukáš Zámečník.
Linguistic theories often suffer from the dilemma that their explanatory power is based on extra-linguistic assumptions. The book delineates the essence of linguistic theory and linguistic explanation and, in doing so, proposes a solution to the dilemma. Simultaneously, the book is one of the first...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2023 Part 1 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2023] ©2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (X, 287 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Foreword
- Contents
- 1 Resolving the dilemma
- 2 Philosophy of scientific explanation
- 3 Systemic explanation in linguistics
- 4 Formal explanation in linguistics
- 5 Functional explanation in quantitative linguistics
- 6 Conclusion
- Appendix
- References
- Persons index
- Subject index