The asterisk from historical to descriptive and theoretical linguistics

Graffi, Giorgio

doi:10.1075/hl.29.3.04gra

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“…abweichende Formen markiert wurden (Zum Asterisk als Zeichen für Ungrammatikalität z.B. Graffi 2002).…”

Section: Textdimension: Wie Ist Die Grammatik Formuliert?unclassified

Deskriptive statt präskriptiver Sprachwissenschaft!? [Descriptive instead of prescriptive linguistics!?]

Klein¹

2004

Zeitschrift Für Germanistische Linguistik

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It is one of the main aims of modern linguistics to describe rather than prescribe linguistic forms and their uses. Normally, descriptive and prescriptive ways of reflecting on language are seen as antagonistic; e.g. a grammarian is either a descriptivist or a prescriptivist. In contrast to this antagonistic conception, the paper argues that the designation of a grammar as descriptive or prescriptive is rather a matter of scale than of antagonism. To hold this thesis, four dimensions are investigated in detail. A grammar might be classified as descriptive or prescriptive by analyzing the intention of its author (Autordimension), its reception (Rezipientendimension), its formulation as a text (Textdimension) and the ways a grammar extracts and treats linguistic data (Datendimension). On the basis of this assumption prescriptive ways of thinking about language are seen as inevitable even for modern linguists. This might be less of a problem than modern linguists have always presumed. _____________ 1Ich werde mich im Folgenden auf das Beispiel der germanistischen Sprachwissenschaft konzentrieren, gehe allerdings davon aus, dass die Befunde im Großen und Ganzen in ähnlicher Art und Weise auch für andere Sprachwissenschaften gelten. 2Hier und im Folgenden wird der Begriff deskriptiv "im weiteren Sinne" (Bußmann 1983: s. v. "Deskriptive Linguistik") genommen, also n i c h t im Bezug auf den amerikanischen Strukturalismus und auch n i c h t im Bezug auf die Differenz zwischen "Beobachtungsadäquatheit" und "Erklärungsadäquatheit"; zu letzterem Sprachgebrauch vgl. etwa den Titel und die anfängliche sprachtheoretische Fundierung in Dürr / Schlobinski 1994.Brought to you by | University of Iowa Libraries Authenticated Download Date | 6/3/15 12:37 PM

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“…abweichende Formen markiert wurden (Zum Asterisk als Zeichen für Ungrammatikalität z.B. Graffi 2002).…”

Section: Textdimension: Wie Ist Die Grammatik Formuliert?unclassified

Deskriptive statt präskriptiver Sprachwissenschaft!? [Descriptive instead of prescriptive linguistics!?]

Klein¹

2004

Zeitschrift Für Germanistische Linguistik

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“…The symbol '*' is used to mark ungrammaticality, and '#' to mark semantic anomaly (or category mistakes, as they are called in the philosophical literature). See Graffi (2002) for the history of the asterisk.…”

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Semantic Anomaly, Pragmatic Infelicity, and Ungrammaticality

Abrusán

2019

Annu. Rev. Linguist.

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A major goal of modern syntax has been to find principles that rule out sentences that seem ungrammatical. To achieve this goal, it has been proposed that syntactically odd (or ungrammatical) sentences can be distinguished empirically and theoretically from semantically odd (or semantically anomalous) sentences. However, sometimes it is not clear why a sentence is “weird,” which has repercussions for our syntactic and semantic theories. According to a number of proposals, semantic and pragmatic processes can lead to weirdness that empirically feels more like ungrammaticality than semantic oddness. But if this is so, then a question arises: What explains the intuitive difference between sentences that feel ungrammatical and those that merely feel semantically (or pragmatically) anomalous? This article addresses this question by describing and comparing various semantic and pragmatic proposals for explaining different types of weirdness: ungrammaticality, semantic anomaly, and pragmatic infelicity.

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The asterisk from historical to descriptive and theoretical linguistics

Cited by 2 publications

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Deskriptive statt präskriptiver Sprachwissenschaft!? [Descriptive instead of prescriptive linguistics!?]

Deskriptive statt präskriptiver Sprachwissenschaft!? [Descriptive instead of prescriptive linguistics!?]

Semantic Anomaly, Pragmatic Infelicity, and Ungrammaticality

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