The Legacy of Zellig Harris

Language and information into the 21st century

Volume 1: Philosophy of science, syntax and semantics

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Bruce E. Nevin | Cisco Systems, Inc.

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Zellig Harris opened many lines of research in language, information, and culture, from generative grammar to informatics, from mathematics to language pedagogy. An international array of scholars here describe further developments and relate this work to that of others. Volume 1 begins with a survey article by Harris himself, previously unavailable in English. T.A. Ryckman, Paul Mattick, Maurice Gross, and Francis Lin show the importance of Harris's methodology for philosophy of science, the first two with reference especially to his remarkable findings on the form of information in science. Themes of discourse and sublanguage analysis are developed further in chapters by Michael Gottfried, James Munz, Robert Longacre, and Carlota Smith. Morris Salkoff, Peter Seuren, and Lila Gleitman present diverse developments in syntax and semantics. Phonology is represented in chapters by Leigh Lisker and by Frank Harary and Stephen Helmreich. Daythal Kendall applies operator grammar to literary analysis of Sapir's Takelma texts, and Fred Lukoff's chapter describes benefits of string analysis for language pedagogy.

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 228] 2002. xxxv, 323 pp.

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 21 October 2008

https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.228

Table of Contents

Foreword

Bruce E. Nevin | p. ix

Acknowledgements | p. xxxv

The background of transformational and metalanguage analysis

Zellig S. Harris | pp. 1–15

Part I. Philosophy of science

1. Method and theory in Harris’s Grammar of Information

Tom A. Ryckman | pp. 19–37

2. Some implications of Zellig Harris’s work for the philosophy of science

Paul Mattick | pp. 39–55

3. Consequences of the metalanguage being included in the language

Maurice Gross | pp. 57–67

4. On Discovery Procedures

Francis Lin | pp. 69–86

Part 2. Discourse and sublanguage analysis

5. Grammatical specification of scientific sublanguages

Michael Gottfried | pp. 89–101

6. Classifiers and reference

James Munz | pp. 103–116

7. Some implications of Zellig Harris’s discourse analysis

Robert E. Longacre | pp. 117–135

8. Accounting for subjectivity (point of view)

Carlota S. Smith | pp. 137–163

Part 3. Syntax and semantics

9. Some new results on Transfer Grammar

Morris Salkoff | pp. 167–178

10. Pseudoarguments and pseudocomplements

Pieter A.M. Seuren | pp. 179–207

11. Verbs of a feather flock together II: The child’s discovery of words and their meanings

Lila Gleitman | pp. 209–229

Part IV. Phonology

12. The voiceless unaspirated stops of English

Leigh Lisker | pp. 233–240

13. On the bipartite distribution of phonemes

Frank Harary and Stephen Helmreich | pp. 241–258

Part V. Applications

14. Operator grammar and the poetic form of Takelma texts

Daythal Kendall | pp. 261–278

15. A practical application of string analysis

Fred Lukoff | pp. 279–304

Zellig Sabbettai Harris: A comprehensive bibliography of his writings, 1932-2003

E.F.K. Koerner | pp. 305–316

Name index | pp. 317–318

Subject index | pp. 319–323

“All of the areas of Harris's linguistic work are covered in these volumes, and a careful reading of them leaves the reader with the conclusion that there is no way to understand American linguistic theory through the second half of the twentieth century without understanding Harris's thought.”

John Goldsmith, University of Chicago, in Language Vol. 81:3 (2005)

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Nevin, Bruce

2020. A letter from Zellig Harris to André Lentin. Historiographia Linguistica 47:2-3 ► pp. 303 ff.

Stanlaw, James

2020. Harris, Zellig. In The International Encyclopedia of Linguistic Anthropology, ► pp. 1 ff.

Ahmadreza Yazdannik, Alireza Yousefy & Mohammadi, Sepideh

2017. Discourse analysis: A useful methodology for health-care system researches. Journal of Education and Health Promotion 6:1 ► pp. 111 ff.

Graffi, Giorgio

2016. Harris, Chomsky and the origins of transformational grammar. Lingvisticae Investigationes 39:1 ► pp. 48 ff.

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