Raimo Anttila

List of John Benjamins publications for which Raimo Anttila plays a role.

Subjects Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Semantics | Uralic languages
Subjects Comparative linguistics | Historical linguistics

Analogy: A basic bibliography

Raimo Anttila and Warren A. Brewer

Subjects Bibliographies in linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Subjects Historical linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Anttila, Raimo and Sheila Embleton 1995 Review of Bird (1993): The Roots and Non-Roots of Indo-European: A lexicostatistical surveyDiachronica 12:2, pp. 251–254 | Review
Anttila, Raimo and Sheila Embleton 1995 The Iconic Index: From Sound Change to Rhyming SlangIconicity in Language, Simone, Raffaele (ed.), pp. 87–118 | Index
Anttila, Raimo 1992 Historical explanation and historical linguisticsExplanation in Historical Linguistics, Davis, Garry W. and Gregory Iverson (eds.), pp. 17–40 | Article
Anttila, Raimo 1989 Pattern Explanation: Survival of the FitDiachronica 6:1, pp. 1–21 | Article
SUMMARY Against the dominating position in theoretical linguistics that it is one of the natural sciences falling under covering (deductive-nomological) laws, it is argued here that linguistics is rather one of the so-called human sciences. It is further shown that the pattern explanation developed… read more
Anttila, Raimo and Sheila Embleton 1989 The Iconic Index: From Sound Change to Rhyming SlangDiachronica 6:2, pp. 155–180 | Index
SUMMARY It is maintained that the basic semiotic concepts of icon and index in the Peircean sense give the best tools for both describing and explaining change. The notion of iconic index is used to explicate assimilation, morphophonemics, sociolectal pronunciation variation, grammatical agreement,… read more
Anttila, Raimo 1988 Causality in Linguistic Theory and in Historical LinguisticsDiachronica 5:1/2, pp. 159–180 | Article
Anttila, Raimo 1985 Language, cognition and linguisticsLinguistics and Philosophy: Festschrift for Rulon S. Wells, Makkai, Adam and Alan K. Melby (eds.), pp. 11–22 | Article
Anttila, Raimo 1975 Generalization, abduction, evolution, and laguageThe Transformational-Generative Paradigm and Modern Linguistic Theory, Koerner, E.F.K. † (ed.), pp. 263–296 | Article