The Synchronic Fallacy: Historical Investigations with a Theory of History

Slight cover corner bump, large rubberstamp to half-title, VG. Theoretical Linguistics Odense University Press Odense 2001 orig. wrappers 25x18cm, 481 pp, Series: Odense University Studies in Linguistics, Vol. 12. University of Southern Denmark doctoral dissertation Contents: Prologue: An Importing Discipline is to Become Immanent and perhaps an Exporter. A Reckoning with the 20th Century Linguistic Tradition´s Synchronizations of 'die geschichtliche Wirklichkeit' of the Everyday Language into 'historische Zufälligkeiten'; The Conceptual Background of the Issues Involved in the Construction of the Theory of History. The First Group of Definitions; A Constructive View of Geneticism and a Critical View of the Synchronic Dualism's Two-state Model; Structure and History are Compatible - neither Antinomical nor Two Different Views of the Same Phenomenon; On the Structural Totality Concept and the Logician´s View of the Everyday Language. Polysemy and Synonymy are Language-constituting Properties; Towards the Theory and its Static Application. The 'Break' Concepts are Introduced. The Interidiolectal Network and the Theory. The Developmental Series; The Immanent Theory of History is Implemented as a Sign-functional Theory of Sound Change: Language Development is the Processes that Constitute Developmental Series Through Time. It is Semantic Change Through Katageneity and Endogeneity, and Formal Variation (Replacement) Through Endogeneity. Concluding Arguments; Appendices.