Postpositions and Auxiliaries in Northern Mande: Syntactic Indeterminacy and Linguistic Analysis  

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Bird, Charles S. ; Kendall, Martha B.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Anthropological Linguistics (ada di JSTOR) vol. 28 no. 4 (1986), page 389-404.
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This paper is about grammatical indeterminacy in the Northern Mande languages. It covers cases where a decision as to whether particular constituents are auxiliaries or postpositions is impossible to motivate, either with reference to synchronic syntactic paradigms or with reference to native speaker judgement. It is a situation where the theory and practice of writing grammars points to a Hobson's choice between ad hoc solutions and arbitrary ones. In this paper we discuss why this is the case, pointing out problems in the way linguists think about grammar and cognition, and problems in the way they leave unexamined their own practices. We argue that a more fluid conception of grammar than the one currently held in linguistic theory is both a more natural approach to grammar and a better model of human cognition.

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