Intuice srovnávací metody
The thesis aims to identify and explain the weak - the "blind" spots of the Comparative Method and Internal Reconstruction as they are used in the traditional historical linguistics, the prime example of which is Indo-European linguistics. As in language, even in science the best explanati...
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| Format: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Language: | Czech |
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2011
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| Online Access: | http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-299115 |
| Summary: | The thesis aims to identify and explain the weak - the "blind" spots of the Comparative Method and Internal Reconstruction as they are used in the traditional historical linguistics, the prime example of which is Indo-European linguistics. As in language, even in science the best explanation may be the historical one - here the development of the method is followed briefly from the pre-scientific era up to late structuralism and the state-of-the- art of the 3rd millennium. It appears clear that the methods are based mostly on the same intuitions that serve the speaker to acquire any language and are prone to have biases that are useful for speakers but tend to ignore certain solutions that are counter-intuitive. The original aim of the methods was quite different from what it is now - and the debate still continues as to whether the proto-language is anything more than a formula, a short- hand for sets of correspondences or whether it is a real language which we may perhaps describe in the same manner, though with less certainty, than any living language. The formulaist language is abstract and from the point of historical linguistics (see bellow) not a language at all and provides no interesting explanation of how the languages came to be different beyond providing a means of encoding and decoding... |
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