LING 360 Study Guide - Final Guide: Minimal Pair, Mathematical Notation, Nikolaas Tinbergen
2 Dec 2016
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Said that studying language could be observed from two points of view: Synchronic: studying the structure of a language at any given moment in time. Diasynchronic: studying how the structure of a language changes over time. Established that psychology was a domain to be studied separately from philosophy. Psychology started out under the umbrella of philosophy under the work of. Language became an interesting vehicle for the study of psychology. He was the person to begin to look at linguistics as a sub-domain of psychology. Started to see the immediate constituency analysis as an analysis of syntax. Argued in 1933 that language was really a part of psychology. This view has stayed constant in contemporary linguistic theory. Philosopher who used categorial grammar in order to be able to understand mathematics through quantificational notation. First person to study how categorial grammar applies to natural language.
