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The Analogical Speaker or grammar put in its place

Putting a priority on the study of linguistic dynamics i) eases their understanding with respect to each other and ii) 'explains' grammatical properties as a side effect. No disjunction between a grammar (today) and the dynamics (to morrow ?). The levers are analogy and proximality : some accesses are proximal (= cheaper), others are more costly. A precise and operable model of linguistic productivity consists of :<br />- a statics, the 'plexus', inscriptions that are meshed, exemplarist, and contextual. Among 'empty' terms (free of properties), 'copositionings' take place.<br />- dynamics which are cognitively founded. The syntactic analysis of an uterance is redefined as structure mappings piled up onto one another. <br />'Systemic productivity' obtains in pluridimensional paradigms and is explained without syntactic features (they are artifactual and their learnability is questionable). A model of acquisition predicts the sigmoid curves which are general empiry in acquisition.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:CCSD/oai:tel.archives-ouvertes.fr:tel-00144458
Date18 November 2003
CreatorsLavie, René-Joseph
PublisherUniversité de Nanterre - Paris X
Source SetsCCSD theses-EN-ligne, France
Languagefra
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypePhD thesis

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