Grammatiktheorien im Vintage-Look - Viel Ideologie, wenig Ertrag.

Publikation: Beitrag in Buch/Bericht/Konferenzband/GesetzeskommentarKapitel in einem SammelbandForschungPeer-reviewed

Abstract

Construction grammar and the Minimalist Program occupy opposite, but equally polar, positions in the pre-scientific setting of studies that attempt to scientifically unravel the make-up of human languages. Both schools share a basic flaw. They favour outdated and inadequate strategies, primarily based on unscientific ideological preconceptions. Construction Grammar is – against better judgment – entangled in the quandaries of functional accounts that biology has conclusively found to be fatal for any scientific progress already a century ago. The MP has turned into a self-centred activity of playful tinkering with syntactic calculi, in a gated community that would let in nothing but hand-picked evidence. These two schools have lost their scientific orientation but their marketing is still superb. This paper is a 'profit warning' for young linguists. Investments into these companies are going to be investments à fonds perdu in the long run.
OriginalspracheDeutsch
TitelGrammatiktheorie und Empirie in der germanistischen Linguistik
Redakteure/-innenAngelika Wöllstein, Peter Gallmann, Mechthild Habermann, Manfred Krifka
Herausgeber (Verlag)DeGruyter
Seiten47-92
ISBN (Print)978-3-11-049099-2
DOIs
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 2018

Systematik der Wissenschaftszweige 2012

  • 602 Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften

Dieses zitieren