Lieb Hans-Heinrich (Ed.). Prospects for a New Structuralism

John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1992. — 285 p. — (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 96).This volume, which has partly grown from a Round Table at the XIVth International Congress of Linguists, argues for a large amount of underlying unity in outlook among different frameworks in present-day linguistics: the contemporary Prague School; the Noematic approach; the UNITYP model; Integrational Linguistics; Natural Morphology; much recent work in phonology; and Popperian Interactionism as applied, in particular, to historical linguistics. Section I discusses philosophical issues such as realism vs. cognitivism; Section II characterizes current frameworks; and Section III deals with individual linguistic areas like phonology. Leading representatives of the various approaches are shown to agree in subscribing to most if not all of nine 'Principles of New Structuralism' that combine ontological realism with non-cognitivist mentalism. These principles define a position that is structuralist in a novel sense and appears to be partly represented also in approaches such as Katzian 'Platonism' and Searle's intentionalism; it should be compatible with frameworks like GPSG. There are definite historical connections with European structuralism. The position is incompatible with current cognitivism of the 'mechanism' type but otherwise bridges traditional oppositions such as the dichotomy of generative vs. non-generative frameworks.Philosophical Issues
An interactionist position - Philip Carr
The case for a new structuralism - Hans-Heinrich LiebFrameworks
Classical structuralism and present-day Praguian linguistics - Petr Sgall
Noematic grammar - Klaus Heger
The functional model of UNITYP dimensions - Hansjakob Seiler
Intergrational linguistics:: outline of a theory of language - Hans-Heinrich LiebAreas
A new structuralism in phonology - Jerzy Bańczerowski, Jerzy Pogonowski and Tadeusz Zgólka
The structuralist heritage in natural Morphology - Wolfgang Ullrich Wurzel
What are language histories histories of? - Roger Lass