Schedule 72. StuTS

This talk discusses the notion of the 'paradigm' in linguistics. This term and its uses are looked at from several perspectives, and more narrowly defined terms are presented.

Any linguist, philologist and philosopher will have an idea of what a paradigm is supposed to be.
On the one hand, it can be understood as an exemplary case, an idealized model or the basic way of perceiving, evaluating and doing associated with a particular vision of reality (cf. Kuhn 1996, Göktürk 2005).
In philology and linguistics, the set of all word-forms belonging to a word is often called a paradigm (cf. Haspelmath & Sims 2010). At least since Saussure's times, 'paradigm' may be used as a term complementary to 'syntagm(a)' (or 'clause'), and thus as the set of possible substitutions of an element in a clause. In recent times, paradigms have come to be called 'hyper-constructions' in construction grammar (Diewald 2020).
Not only will I show how these uses may be reconciled, but I will also demonstrate how more specific terminology may help to understand and make proper use of linguistic concepts in the realm of 'paradigm'. This stretches from 'grammatical paradigm' over 'periphrastic forms' and 'paradigmaticity' all the way to 'zero-morphemes'.

References:
Diewald, G. (2020). Paradigms lost – paradigms regained: Paradigms as hyper-constructions. In L. Sommerer & E. Smirnova (Eds.), Constructional Approaches to Language (Vol. 27, pp. 278–315). John Benjamins Publishing Company.
Diewald, Gabriele, & Politt, Katja. (2022). Paradigms regained: Theoretical and empirical arguments for the reassessment of the notion of paradigm.
Givón, T. (2018). On understanding grammar (Revised edition). John Benjamins Publishing Company.
Göktürk, E. (2005). What is “paradigm.” Accessed at Http://Heim. Ifi. Uio. No/∼ Erek/Essays/Paradigm.pdf.
Haspelmath, M., & Sims, A. D. (2010). Understanding morphology (2nd ed). Hodder Education.
Joseph, J. E. (1995). Saussurean Tradition in Linguistics. In Concise History of the Language Sciences (pp. 233–239). Elsevier.
Kuhn, T. S. (1996). The structure of scientific revolutions (3rd ed). University of Chicago Press.
Lehmann, C. (2015). Thoughts on grammaticalization (3rd edition). Language Science Press.
Mehler, A., Stegbauer, C., & Frank-Job, B. (2018). Ferdinand de Saussure. 1916. Cours de linguistique générale. Payot, Lausanne/Paris.
Penke, M., Janssen, U., & Eisenbeiss, S. (2004). Psycholinguistic evidence for the underspecification of morphosyntactic features. Brain and Language, 90(1–3), 423–433.

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Day: 2022-11-05
Start time: 15:15
Duration: 00:30
Room: Wiwi-Bunker —Room 3016
Track: Theoretical Linguistics
Language: en

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