SVF-8054 Philosophy of Science, Fall 2014
Reading list: Linguistics
A. Classics of 20th Century Linguistics
Ferdinand de Saussure: Course in General Linguistics. Translated & annotated by
Roy Harris. London: Duckworth 1974, parts I and II (pp. 65-138). 73 pages.
Leonard Bloomfield: Language. New York: Holt, Reinhart and Winston 1933,
chapters 1 and 2, pp. 3-41. 38 pages.
Noam Chomsky: Knowledge of Language. New York: Praeger 1986, chapters 1
and 2, pp. 1-50. 50 pages
William Labov: Sociolinguistic Patterns. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania
Press 1972, chapter 8, pp. 183-259. 76 pages.
Ronald W. Langacker: Cognitive Grammar: A basic introduction. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, chapter 1, pp. 3-26. 23 pages.
B. 20th Century Linguistics in Scandinavia
Even Hovdhaugen, Fred Karlsson, Carol Henriksen and Bengt Sigurd: The History
of linguistics in the Nordic countries. Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica,
2000, pp. 303-355. 52 pages.
C. 21st Century Linguistics: An Empirical Turn?
Laura A. Janda: Quantitative Methods in Cognitive Linguistics: An introduction. In
Laura A. Janda (ed.): Cognitive Linguistics: The Quantitative Turn. The Essential
Reader. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, pp. 1–9. 9 pages.
David Eddington: Linguistics and the Scientific Method. Southwest Journal of
Linguistics, volume 27(2008), number 2, pp. 1–16. 16 pages.
D. Language Universals in Contemporary Linguistics
Nicholas Evans & Stephen C. Levinson: The myth of language universals:
Language diversity and its importance for cognitive science. Behavioral and
Brain Sciences (2009) 32, 429–492. [doi:10.1017/S0140525X0999094X] 63
pages.
Total: 400 pages.