Kategorizace v lingvistice : spiritus agens nového poznání?

• Authors: Jan Křivan

Title variants

EN

Categorization in linguistics : a spiritus agens of new findings?

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The paper deals with (meta)linguistic categorization and its role in linguistic/grammatical research. Following the presentation of the starting point on how to assess distinct categorizations, it is shown how the absence or presence of theoretical positions on categorization in languages (structuralism, generativism, usage-based approaches) affects linguistic descriptions, and examples of inconsistencies are also presented. Subsequently, it is suggested a new categorization perspective can be used to overcome existing categorizations. The paper also presents the position that the study of language concerns causal processes applied in multiple frames and concludes that doing distinct and compatible categorizations can truly serve as a spiritus agens of new findings in linguistics.

Keywords

CS

jazykové rámce; kategorizace; lingvistická metodologie; lingvistika založená na užívání jazyka; metalingvistika

EN

categorization; frames of language; linguistic methodology; metalinguistics; usage-based linguistics

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of the Czech Language, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Naše řeč (Our Speech)
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 103
• Issue: 1-2
• Pages: 11-23
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Jan  Křivan

• Naše řeč, redakce, Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR, v.v.i., Letenská 4, 118 51 Praha 1, Czech Republic