Either science aims at universal validity, or it is no science. The idea that science can be culturally or nationally determined is unanimously considered as an outdated Romantic cliché. Nonetheless, it is usual to speak of the Western thought, without wondering where its Eastern limit is to be… read more
L. Tesnière is not the first inventor of dependency grammars. In fact, a “climate of opinion” can be formed without any direct contact in time and space between linguists who do not know each other but came to similar views because they met the same problems and were dissatisfied with the… read more
Soviet linguistics of the 1920s–1930s has often been presented, in the Soviet Union as well as in the so-called “Western world”, as a quest for a Marxist science of language. As a matter of fact, it would be more accurate to speak of an original blend of German romanticism, Neo-Platonistic… read more
