Le tertium comparationis en linguistique contrastive: problémes et méthodes

• Authors: Jan Pekelder

Title variants

EN

The tertium comparationis in constrastive linguistics. A methodological view

• Languages of publication: FR

Abstracts

EN

One of the central methodological problems within contrastive linguistics concerns the nature of the tertium comparationis (TC). On the whole, we can distinguish two approaches. The first one induces the TC directly from the language data and is universalistic. The second deduces the TC from a metatheory about the intrinsic characteristics of natural language and is relativistic. The present contribution serves a strictly methodological purpose, namely to present some new arguments in favour of the latter approach.

Keywords

EN

contrastive methodology; tertium comparationis; universalistic approach; relativistic approach; conceptualisation; grammaticalisation; linearisation

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Czech Republic
• Journal: Linguistica Pragensia
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 20
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 22-36
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Jan Pekelder

• Linguistica Pragensia, Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR, v.v.i., Letenská 4, 118 51 Praha 1, Czech Republic