How can linguistics get out of its pre-Galilean state? Cover Image

La linguistique peut-elle sortir de son état pré-galiléen ?
How can linguistics get out of its pre-Galilean state?

Author(s): Jean-Pierre Desclés
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: Operators; Categorical grammars; Tenses; aspects and modalities; Mathematization of linguis-tic concepts; Types of Church; Combinatorial logic

Summary/Abstract: The future of linguistics implies a better definition of concepts, especially in the semantic analysis. The notion of operator plays an important role in several areas of linguistics, for instance categorical grammars and representations of the meanings of grammatical categories. The general topology makes it possible to mathematize the grammatical concepts (time, aspects, modalities, enunciative operations) by means of operators. Curry’s Combinatorial Logic is an adequate for-malism for composing and transforming operators at different levels of analysis that connect the semiotic expressions of languages (the observables) with their semantico-cognitive interpretations. The article refers to many studies that develop the points discussed.

  • Issue Year: 2021
  • Issue No: 33
  • Page Range: 1-23
  • Page Count: 23
  • Language: French