The Integration of Linguistic Theory: Internal Reconstruction and the Comparative Method in Descriptive Linguistics.

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    • Peer Reviewed:
      N
    • Source:
      39
    • Subject Terms:
      Child Language; Comparative Analysis; Deep Structure; Descriptive Linguistics; Diachronic Linguistics; Dialect Studies; English; Linguistic Theory; Phonology; Surface Structure; Transformational Generative Grammar
    • Abstract:
      The author aims: (1) to show that generative phonology uses essentially the method of internal reconstruction which has previously been employed only in diachronic studies in setting up synchronic underlying phonological representations; (2) to show why synchronic analysis should add the comparative method to its arsenal, together with whatever adjustments in theory are required to make this accommodation; and (3) to present some empirical results of a first approximation to a pandialectal phonology which has been worked out by the author. This paper represents a revision of a paper read at the Conference on Historical Linguistics in the Perspective of Transformational Theory held at the University of California, February 1, 1969. A shorter and more revised version will appear in the Conference papers to be published by the Indiana University Press. (AMM)
    • Publication Date:
      1971
    • Accession Number:
      ED042140