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{"title":"On the feasibility of general meanings in prepositional semantics","authors":"Andreas Widoff","doi":"10.1080/03740463.2023.2210423","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03740463.2023.2210423","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The paper investigates the status of general meanings in prepositional semantics. On the basis of a review of the strategies employed in different accounts of prepositions, the paper argues that strict adherence to the notion of general meanings is unfeasible in the field, partly because a purely deductive method of description breaks down as the number of possible oppositions increases. This failure points to the need for a theoretical reformulation of the notion. The paper suggests that there are three conservative ways to pursue such a reformulation: by rejecting the idea that general meanings are autonomous from thought, by rejecting the principle of oppositional constitution or by rejecting the requirement of monosemy. The merits and flaws of these strategies are discussed and some theoretical and methodological motives in choosing between them are considered.","PeriodicalId":35105,"journal":{"name":"Acta Linguistica Hafniensia","volume":"11 1","pages":"16 - 36"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86226274","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Bulletin du Cercle linguistique de Copenhague 2022","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/03740463.2023.2210241","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03740463.2023.2210241","url":null,"abstract":"\"Bulletin du Cercle linguistique de Copenhague 2022.\" Acta Linguistica Hafniensia, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), p. 1","PeriodicalId":35105,"journal":{"name":"Acta Linguistica Hafniensia","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135754740","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Analyse et logique de la signification : une analyse épistémologique de la notion structuraliste de <i>Gesamtbedeutung</i>","authors":"Anne-Gaëlle Toutain","doi":"10.1080/03740463.2023.2234759","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03740463.2023.2234759","url":null,"abstract":"RÉSUMÉCet article s’efforce de caractériser la problématique dans laquelle s’inscrit la notion structuraliste de Gesamtbedeutung, à travers une analyse comparée de textes de Hjelmslev, Jakobson et Benveniste. Tandis que les élaborations des deux premiers sont fondamentalement comparables, l’élaboration benvenistienne est dotée d’une remarquable singularité. Cette différence, qui rompt l’unité du structuralisme européen, pourtant caractérisé par sa commune mécompréhension de la théorie saussurienne, soulève deux questions importantes et remarquablement corrélatives : celle de la signification et celle du métalangage, qui sont ensuite envisagées à la lumière de la théorisation saussurienne de la langue.MOTS-CLÉS: Valeurfonctionnementsignificationmétalangagepsychanalyse Note sur l’auteurAgrégée de lettres modernes et docteur en linguistique, Anne-Gaëlle Toutain est maître d’enseignement et de recherche habilitée à diriger des recherches en linguistique française synchronique et diachronique et en histoire et épistémologie de la linguistique à l’Institut de langue et de littérature françaises de l’université de Berne. Ses recherches s’inscrivent dans le champ de l’épistémologie de la linguistique et portent en particulier sur la linguistique saussurienne et, dans ce cadre, sur l’articulation entre linguistique et psychanalyse et entre linguistique et biologie (neurolinguistique).Notes1 Jakobson emploie l’expression Gesamtbedeutung, et regrette l’utilisation dans La catégorie des cas de celle de Grundbedeutung, qui lui paraît trop susceptible d’évoquer celle de signification principale (Hauptbedeutung). Hjelmslev insiste pour sa part sur la nécessité de parler de Grundbedeutung ; cette signification, explicative des emplois, est en effet, en tant que telle, abstraite. Voir Hjelmslev (Citation1972a, I, 37 et II, 46, et Citation1971, 124) et Jakobson (Citation1971, 27).2 Elle y apparaît notamment dans le cadre de l’établissement d’un schéma de catégories universel se trouvant au fondement de tout système grammatical, établissement qui se situe dans la lignée de certaines propositions des Principes de grammaire générale (Hjelmslev Citation1928), texte qui serait donc à prendre en considération dans le cadre d’une étude de la constitution de cette notion de Grundbedeutung au fil de l’élaboration hjelmslevienne. C’est cependant, sauf erreur, dans Sprogsystem og sprogforandring qu’elle apparaît pour la première fois. On la retrouve ensuite dans La catégorie des cas (1935/1937; Hjelmslev Citation1972a), puis dans l’« Essai d’une théorie des morphèmes » (1936 ; in Hjelmslev Citation1971), « La structure morphologique » (1939 ; in Hjelmslev Citation1971), « Animé et inanimé, personnel et non-personnel » (1956 ; in Hjelmslev Citation1971) et « Pour une sémantique structurale » (1957 ; in Hjelmslev Citation1971).3 Voir également, cependant, pour ce rejet du psychologisme et du « sentiment linguistique », corrélatif d’une affirmation du caractère purement linguis","PeriodicalId":35105,"journal":{"name":"Acta Linguistica Hafniensia","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135798451","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The general meaning as a potential","authors":"Eva Krásová","doi":"10.1080/03740463.2023.2234234","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03740463.2023.2234234","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThis article examines the idea of the “potentiality” of language phenomena as expressed by Vilém Mathesius in 1911, and its relation to the debate on the general or basic concept of a linguistic category, discussed by Roman Jakobson, Louis Hjelmslev and others around 1935. We track the concept of potentiality in Roman Jakobson’s and Louis Hjelmslev’s texts from the period, then we point out similarities with ideas expressed by Émile Benveniste around the same time. Next, we examine Mathesius’ very different idea of potentiality as the state of linguistic expressions that may be otherwise. However, by tracking the problem through Mathesius’ later texts, I follow how his theorization gradually develops to converge with Jakobson’s. I will stress the importance for Mathesius as a professor of English philology of the problem of the sentence, with a focus on the Focus-Topic articulation theory in the whole process.KEYWORDS: SyntaxpotentialityRoman JakobsonVilém MathesiusLouis HjelmslevEmile Benveniste AcknowledgementThis article has been produced within the Cooperatio program (field: Literature) of Charles University in Prague.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 The whole conceptualisation of structural linguistics in the 1920s and 1930s in terms of ‘schools’ and ‘circles’, attributed to various European cities, is a specific methodological approach to the history of sciences especially used by scholars connected with the Czech tradition of writing about the Prague School (Sládek Citation2015; Toman Citation1995; Volek Citation1985). In spite of neglect and open criticism for its tendency to narrativisation and ideologisation (Daszuta Citation2018; Gierowski Citation2010; Sériot Citation2017), this approach still bears a certain explicative power. We adopt it as our starting point, not in an effort to adhere to its methodology but to have some elementary heuristic perspective and also, because some participants of the debate itself, namely Jakobson, have a propensity to see events in these terms (see Jakobson’s review of the 1936 congress in Copenhagen, Jakobson Citation1936).2 We are using a theorisation of the genitive by Karel Hausenblas, a continuator of the Prague School linguistics, and, in a way, heir to Jakobson’s analysis.3 We have tried to demonstrate how Émile Benveniste’s thought in the 1960es may be connected to the texts of Vladimír Skalička, tracking the possible connection to the 1948 essay “The need for the linguistics of ’la parole’” (Krásová and Koblížek Citation2019).4 The problem of the phoneme and its definition is of course one of the seminal topics of the Prague school. Investigating Mathesius’s role in the debate is unfortunately out of the range of this article.5 We refer here not to the real nature of the Neogrammarian linguistics, but to the specific role it has in Mathesius’ thinking. For Mathesius, the Neogrammarian school represents the unfortunately strict a","PeriodicalId":35105,"journal":{"name":"Acta Linguistica Hafniensia","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135799419","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The desire to make a difference: Jacob Louis Mey III, 30 October 1926–10 February 2023","authors":"F. Gregersen","doi":"10.1080/03740463.2023.2210190","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03740463.2023.2210190","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35105,"journal":{"name":"Acta Linguistica Hafniensia","volume":"45 1","pages":"1 - 5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77583703","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The role of the dispute about the nature of content- <i>figurae</i> in structural semantics in semiotics’ history: Hjelmslev, Jakobson, and Eco","authors":"Andrea Picciuolo Aresta","doi":"10.1080/03740463.2023.2241281","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03740463.2023.2241281","url":null,"abstract":"The debate on the semantic analysis of both lexical and grammatical forms has been salient since the early days of the institutionalisation of semiotics, as fundamental to the theoretical and methodological curriculum of this disciplinary domain. In this debate, the concept of content-figurae, or semantic traits, plays a major role. The well-established sources for this concept and the corresponding method of analysis are the works of Hjelmslev and Jakobson, mediated through Umberto Eco’s thinking. In Eco’s framework, the idea of content-figurae is interpreted as that of ‘semantic primitives, and on that ground, its epistemological foundation and methodological efficacy are refuted. In this article, I try to relate Eco’s semiotic position to Hjelmslev’s and Jakobsons’s positions in linguistic (grammatical) semantics, discussing their principles of semantic analysis of grammatical forms from the perspective of the institutionalisation of semiotics as a disciplinary domain.","PeriodicalId":35105,"journal":{"name":"Acta Linguistica Hafniensia","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135798210","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Epistemic feelings and the making of the statement as a meaningful linguistic structure. Revisiting Heinrich Gomperz’s psychoaffective model of semantics and semiotics and its significance today","authors":"David Romand","doi":"10.1080/03740463.2023.2240685","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03740463.2023.2240685","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTIn the present article, I revisit the feeling-based model of semantics and semiotics proposed in 1908 by the Austrian philosopher Heinrich Gomperz (1873–1942) within the framework of his “semasiology” (Semasiologie). I discuss how Gomperz regarded epistemic (“intellectual”) feelings as the foundations of both conceptual and grammatical meanings, but also of the “semiotization” of the statement (Aussage). Special emphasis is placed on how, for him, affective states help make the statement a global meaningful structure. An analysis of Gomperz’s psychoaffective model leads me to wonder about the soundness of the provocative view that epistemic feelings may be the core psychological components of linguistic meaning.KEYWORDS: Heinrich Gomperzsemanticssemioticsepistemic feelingsemantic internalismimage schema AcknowledgmentsI would like to thank Lorenzo Cigana and Henrik Jørgensen for having given me the opportunity to present my research on Gomperz and semasiology within the framework of the thematic workshop “Between Form and Meaning: The Structural Quest for ‘Gesamtbedeutungen’,” held on the occasion of ICHoLS XV – the present article being partly based on the text of my presentation. As the two guest editors of this issue of Acta Linguistica Hafniensia, Lorenzo and Henrik also deserve special thanks for their patience and commitment regarding the preparation of my manuscript. I am also grateful to the two anonymous reviewers and Hartmut Haberland and Lars Heltoft, the two journal’s editors, whose insightful comments permitted me to improve the quality of the manuscript, and to Barbara Every for proofreading the English text.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 In spite of recent renewed interest in his work, the literature on Gomperz is astonishingly scarce, especially in English. For an overview of Gomperz’s thought and life, see Gomperz (Citation1943), Seiler and Stadler (Citation1994), and Hacohen (Citation2000, 149–155). For a detailed analysis of the issues discussed in the present article, see my recent contributions (Romand Citation2019a; Citation2019b; Citation2022a). Further developments on Gomperz’s Weltanschauungslehre and theory of language can be found in Henckmann (Citation1988), Kiesow (Citation1990), and Seiler (Citation1991).2 On the conceptual and genealogical link between empiriocriticism and pathempiricism as two instances of “affectivist” immanentist positivism, see Romand (Citation2019a). Although Gomperz prepared his doctoral dissertation under the supervision of Ernst Mach, the views expounded in his Weltanschauungslehre prove to be much more closely related to Avenarius’s feeling-based model than to Mach’s sensation-based positivist model. Among other characteristic features of his pathempiricist doctrine, his conception of the “statement” (Aussage) as the basic structural and functional unit of language and experience has its roots, at least partially, in the Kr","PeriodicalId":35105,"journal":{"name":"Acta Linguistica Hafniensia","volume":"48 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135798452","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The issue of general meanings in structural linguistics and its legacy","authors":"Lorenzo Cigana, Henrik Jørgensen","doi":"10.1080/03740463.2023.2211320","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03740463.2023.2211320","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35105,"journal":{"name":"Acta Linguistica Hafniensia","volume":"29 1","pages":"6 - 15"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79039187","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The ‘Finnish Affair’. Semantic vs. syntactic aspects in Jespersen’s, Hjelmslev’s and Anderson’s descriptions of the case-system of Finnish","authors":"V. Jensen","doi":"10.1080/03740463.2023.2210441","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03740463.2023.2210441","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In the 1930s the two Danish linguists Otto Jespersen (1860–1943) and Louis Hjelmslev (1899–1965) both referred to the Finnish case-system in their discussions of the importance of the concept of case. In my paper, I examine first the problems that arise when cases are excluded from the (syntactical) analysis as in Jespersen’s symbolic system, and thereafter the problems that arise when one tries to establish a localist based system of cases and their semantic values, as in Hjelmslev’s work. Further, I examine the problems that John M. Anderson is confronted with when he analyses the Finnish cases with his localist theory of universal cases. It is concluded (1) that Jespersen’s syntactically based symbolic system cannot capture much of the grammatically encoded information in Finnish; (2) that Hjelmslev’s localist model, which takes Finnish as a benchmark in order to explain the structure of complex case-systems, includes the semantic issue of the relationship between the localistically defined categories and the grammatical ones; (3) that Anderson uses Finnish to showcase his theory, but that his rendering of Finnish also represents a challenge for this.","PeriodicalId":35105,"journal":{"name":"Acta Linguistica Hafniensia","volume":"9 1","pages":"72 - 92"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84595911","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Typological features of Telugu: defining the parameters of post-Talmian motion event typology","authors":"V. Naidu, J. Zlatev, Joost van de Weijer","doi":"10.1080/03740463.2022.2132563","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03740463.2022.2132563","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Recent research in motion event typology has moved beyond the binary Talmian division of “verb-framed” and “satellite-framed” languages and has established the existence of at least four distinct typological clusters, instantiated by, for example, Swedish (Germanic), French (Romance), Thai (Tai-Kadai) and Telugu (Dravidian). In this paper, we focus on characteristic features of Telugu, as a representative of the fourth cluster. In the study, 30 native Telugu speakers described video-recorded translocative events, in which the factors boundedness, viewpoint and causation were manipulated. Using the model Holistic Spatial Semantics, we show that Telugu speakers (a) preferentially used Direction verbs rather than Path verbs, (b) predominantly used case markers rather than verbs for encoding Path, (c) extensively used Landmark and Region expressions, and (d) frequently used Manner verbs in situations of “boundary-crossing” unlike speakers of typical “verb-framed” languages. We propose these features to be criterial of the fourth typological cluster mentioned above, a claim to be investigated in future research.","PeriodicalId":35105,"journal":{"name":"Acta Linguistica Hafniensia","volume":"23 1","pages":"205 - 234"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84024872","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}