Linguistics in the 21st Century: Problems, Prospects, and Growth Points
This paper considers four problems that are most likely to affect the future development of linguistics: 1) linguistic diversity; 2) the text/system interpretation of language; 3) the role of quantitative methods; 4) the role of diachronic analysis. The author concludes that systemic, static, synchr...
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| description | This paper considers four problems that are most likely to affect the future development of linguistics: 1) linguistic diversity; 2) the text/system interpretation of language; 3) the role of quantitative methods; 4) the role of diachronic analysis. The author concludes that systemic, static, synchronic, qualitative linguistics is replaced by linguistics of variability, which is asystemic and oriented towards quantitative approaches, diachrony, and maximum linguistic diversity. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e83f6b90b0f64d3fbb375665e37641332022-12-21T23:20:38ZengImmanuel Kant Baltic Federal UniversityСлово.ру: балтийский акцент2225-53462686-89892018-03-019171210.5922/2225-5346-2018-1-1Linguistics in the 21st Century: Problems, Prospects, and Growth PointsPlungyan V. A. 0Institute of Russian Language, Russian Academy of Sciences This paper considers four problems that are most likely to affect the future development of linguistics: 1) linguistic diversity; 2) the text/system interpretation of language; 3) the role of quantitative methods; 4) the role of diachronic analysis. The author concludes that systemic, static, synchronic, qualitative linguistics is replaced by linguistics of variability, which is asystemic and oriented towards quantitative approaches, diachrony, and maximum linguistic diversity.https://journals.kantiana.ru/slovo/3737/10306/linguistic diversityquantitative methodsasystem text linguisticscorpus linguisticsusage-based linguistics |
| spellingShingle | Plungyan V. A. Linguistics in the 21st Century: Problems, Prospects, and Growth Points Слово.ру: балтийский акцент linguistic diversity quantitative methods asystem text linguistics corpus linguistics usage-based linguistics |
| title | Linguistics in the 21st Century: Problems, Prospects, and Growth Points |
| title_full | Linguistics in the 21st Century: Problems, Prospects, and Growth Points |
| title_fullStr | Linguistics in the 21st Century: Problems, Prospects, and Growth Points |
| title_full_unstemmed | Linguistics in the 21st Century: Problems, Prospects, and Growth Points |
| title_short | Linguistics in the 21st Century: Problems, Prospects, and Growth Points |
| title_sort | linguistics in the 21st century problems prospects and growth points |
| topic | linguistic diversity quantitative methods asystem text linguistics corpus linguistics usage-based linguistics |
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