Deviational Syntactic Structures Hans Götzsche Paperback 9781472587961

Deviational Syntactic StructuresAuthor(s): Hans Gtzsche\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Bloomsbury Academic\nISBN-13: 9781472587961, 978-1472587961\nSynopsis\nTaking as a point of departure ideas and principles from the 18th and 19th century Danish tradition, and from 20th century traditions of the Copenhagen School of linguistics, this book attempts to set up a formal theory of syntax that addresses some of the weak points of other formal grammars, notably Chomskyan grammar. \n\nAfter introductions to the ideas of Brndal, Hjelmslev and Diderichsen, Gtzsche lays the philosophical and theoretical foundations of his formalism, based on a theory of universal pragmatics and on the invention of a special kind of formal logic called 'occurrence logic', and elaborates this formal system in detail. In order to justify the adequacy of the theory, the theoretical apparatus is applied to the general structures of Danish and Swedish and illustra.