Schools of Linguistics

By El Mouatamid Ben Rochd

THIS BOOK
From time immemorial, language was seen as a fascinating enigma by
many. It included philosophers, religious men, psychologists, politicians,
and sometimes even the layman. To answer the big question "what is
language?" this book opens the door to the most famous specialists over
a large and long range in time and space. It starts from ancient Panini to
modern structuralists and cognitivists such as Saussure Bloomfield and
Chomsky.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Books on Demand
• Release date: Oct 11, 2021
• ISBN: 9782322397501

El Mouatamid Ben Rochd

THE AUTHOR Dr. El Mouatamid Ben Rochd graduated from Fez University in 1978 (BA in American Civilization), obtained his Masters from York University in 1982 (MA in French Syntax) and his Doctorate in 1990 from the National University of Ireland (PhD in Theoretical Linguistics and the Structure of Arabic). He spent one year as Visiting Professor at the University of Washington. He is currently a freelance scholar of languages, cultures and philosophy.

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Schools of Linguistics

Ben Rochd

Contents

Introduction

WHY STUDY LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS?

INDIAN TRADITION: PANINI

GREEK AND LATIN LINGUISTICS

PLATO

ARISTOTLE

DONATUS

ARABIC TRADITION

SIBAWAIHI

IBN JINNI

PORT ROYAL

HISTORICISM GRIMM’S LAW

STRUCTURALISM : FERDINAND DE SAUSSURE

HJELMSLEV

PRAGUE LINGUISTIC CIRCLE

ROMAN JAKOBSON

ANDRÉ MARTINET

WILLIAM LABOV

LONDON SCHOOL

LE PAGE

WITTGENSTEIN

US STRUCTURALISM

KENNETH PIKE

LEONARD BLOOMFIELD

SAPIR-WHORF HYPOTHESIS

AVRAM NOAM CHOMSKY

CONCLUSION

APPENDICES

Bibliography

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SCHOOLS

OF

LINGUISTICS

Contents

Introduction

WHY STUDY LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS?

INDIAN TRADITION PANINI

GREEK AND LATIN LINGUISTICS

PLATO

ARISTOTLE

DONATUS

ARABIC TRADITION

SIBAWAIHI

IBN JINNI

PORT ROYAL

HISTORICISM GRIMM’S LAW

STRUCTURALISM FERDINAND DE SAUSSURE

HJELMSLEV

PRAGUE LINGUISTIC CIRCLE

ROMAN JAKOBSON

ANDRÉ MARTINET

WILLIAM LABOV

LONDON SCHOOL

LE PAGE

WITTGENSTEIN

US STRUCTURALISM

KENNETH PIKE

LEONARD BLOOMFIELD

SAPIR-WHORF HYPOTHESIS

AVRAM NOAM CHOMSKY

Conclusion

Appendices

Bibliography

Introduction

LANGUAGE is basically the same and should have a

universal structure, whereas the theories and schools of

linguistics differ enormously, as attested by Fassi-Fehri (1982),

‘linguistic relations can be determined as grammaticality,

ambiguity, synonymy, entailment, analycity, contradiction, etc.

To give adequate answers to these problems, we needed to fix

a set of methods, principles and constrains so as to give an

appropriate description of languages. But soon, each linguistic

trend or school diverges in a special way and takes its unique

specific axioms and methods not