| 单词 | speculative grammar |
| 释义 | > as lemmasspeculative grammar speculative grammar n. a late medieval scholastic grammatical system in which the structure of language is interpreted through scholastic philosophy in terms of our perception and representation of the world by the ‘modes of signification’ (modi significandi) (cf. modistae n.); any one of the grammatical theories arising from this analysis. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > scholasticism > [noun] > grammar speculative grammar1951 the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > schools or theories of grammar > [noun] > other spec. universal grammar1751 recognition grammar1926 tagmemics1947 structural grammar1949 speculative grammar1951 generative grammar1959 generativism1965 standard theory1966 systemic grammar1967 case grammar1968 Montague grammar1972 1951 R. H. Robins Anc. & Mediaeval Gram. Theory iii. 80 Most of these philosophical or ‘speculative’ grammars were entitled De Modis Significandi (whence the name ‘Modistae’), or, as we might put it to-day, ‘On Semantics’; they covered a great deal more ground than would now be included in ‘grammar’ narrowly considered. 1968 J. Lyons Introd. Theoret. Linguistics i. 15 It was the task of scientific, or ‘speculative’, grammar to discover the principles whereby the word, as a ‘sign’, was related on the one hand to the human intellect and on the other to the thing it represented, or ‘signified’. 1972 R. R. K. Hartmann & F. C. Stork Dict. Lang. & Linguistics 139/1 New in these universal speculative grammars [were]..the refinements in syntactic analysis, e.g. the function of prepositions, the formal criteria of grammatical acceptability, and the concepts of dependency, government and transitivity. 1975 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 20 134 Speculative grammar attempted to show how the ‘modes of existence’ of objects were apprehended by the ‘modes of understanding’ of the human intellect. < as lemmas |
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