The Notion of "Grammatical Tradition" and Its Usage in French Linguistics

This paper addresses, in French linguistics, three complementary aspects of "grammatical tradition," as a concept, as a term, & as a corpus of texts aiming at describing objective properties of languages. What does "tradition" mean exactly? Is the term "grammatical tradi...

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Published in:Langages (Paris) 2007-01, Vol.167 (Sept), p.7-26
Main Authors: Neveu, Franck, Lauwers, Peter
Format: Article
Language:fre
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Summary:This paper addresses, in French linguistics, three complementary aspects of "grammatical tradition," as a concept, as a term, & as a corpus of texts aiming at describing objective properties of languages. What does "tradition" mean exactly? Is the term "grammatical tradition" used to refer to a scientifically deficient approach to grammar, as exemplified by the term "traditional grammar"? What is a "tradition" in the scientific field? What are the criteria (historical, epistemological) which allow us to consider this corpus homogeneous? How is this corpus constituted? Could "grammatical traditions" be subsumed into a generic category (the "grammatical tradition")? References. Adapted from the source document
ISSN:0458-726X