Vol.5, No 1, 2007pp. 31 - 46
UDC 81-116.6
HALF A CENTURY OF GENERATIVE LINGUISTICS
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WHAT HAS THE PARADIGM GIVEN TO SOCIAL SCIENCE?
Mihailo Antović
Department of English, University of Niš
This paper aims to join marking the fiftieth anniversary of generative
linguistics by focusing on some principal contributions the field has given
to science in general. In the first part of the paper, I discuss the issue
of 'modern linguistics', as it is widely taught in local universities,
and examine the importance of the generative school in this notion of modernity.
In the second part, I analyze the fundamental conceptions and epistemological
framework of this school in the study of language, pinpointing fifteen
legacies it seems to have already left to human thought, as follows: breakup
with behaviourism; reinstitution of the hypothetico-deductive method; elaboration
of the mind-body issue; revival of the thesis that the only true reality
is that of the human mind; reintroduction and extension of the term 'cognitive';
participation in rapid terminological changes in the social sciences; return
to the problem of language universals with a strong focus on the genetic
origins of language faculty; extended usage of the term 'grammar'; contribution
to the deletion of clear boundaries between the natural and social sciences,
especially in psychology; rise of reductionism in formal sciences; return
to the once forgotten Gestalt principles of perception; radical breakup
between lexical and sentence semantics; neo-Darwinism; rise of neuroscience;
impetus to the foundation of new fields, often multidisciplinary ones.
Reconciliation of cognitive and generative linguistics in the future is
anticipated.
Key Words: modern linguistics, generative linguistics, cognitive
linguistics, cognitive revolution, Chomskyan thought
POLA VEKA GENERATIVNE LINGVISTIKE
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ŠTA JE OVA PARADIGMA DALA DRUŠTVENIM NAUKAMA?
Cilj ovoga rada je da ponudi mali prilog obele ž avanju pedesete godi
š njice generativne lingvistike tako š to ć e razmotriti neke glavne
doprinose koje je ova disciplina dala nauci uop š te . U prvom delu rada
izla ž em problem < moderne lingvistike >, onako kako se ona uglavnom
predaje na doma ć im univerzitetima i istra ž ujem zna č aj generativne
š kole u ovakvom vi đ enju modernog . U drugom delu , analiziram fundamentalne
koncepte i epistemolo š ki okvir ovog pravca u izu č avanju jezika ,
gde izdvajam petnaest zave š tanja koja je generativna lingvistika izgleda
ve ć ostavila ljudskoj misli , a to su : raskid sa biheviorizmom ; ponovno
uvo đ enje hipoteti č ko - deduktivnog metoda ; dalja razrada problema
odnosa duha i tela ; o ž ivljavanje teze da je jedina prava realnost ona
u ljudskome umu ; ponovno uvo đ enje i pro š irenje zna č enja termina
< kognitivno >; u č e šć e u rapidnim terminolo š kim promenama
koje prate sve dru š tvene nauke ; povratak problemu jezi č kih univerzalija
sa posebnim naglaskom na genetsko poreklo jezi č ke sposobnosti ; pro
š irena upotreba termina < gramatika >; doprinos brisanju jasnih granica
izme đ u prirodnih i dru š tvenih nauka , naro č ito u psihologiji ;
uspon redukcionizma u formalnim naukama ; povratak nekad zaboravljenim
ge š talt principima percepcije ; radikalni razlaz semantike re č i i
re č enice ; neo - Darvinizam ; uspon neuronauka ; podsticaj zasnivanju
novih disciplina , naro č ito multidisciplinarnih . Rad predviđa i pomirenje
kognitivne i generativne lingvistike u budućnosti.
Ključne reči: moderna lingvistika ; generativna lingvistka
; kognitivna lingvistika ; kognitivna revolucija ; č omskijanska misao
