History and perspectives of language study : papers in honor of Ranko Bugarski

336 Pages·2000·2.681 MB·English

by  Ranko Bugarski, Olga Mišeska Tomić, Milorad Radovanović

HISTORY AND PERSPECTIVES
OF LANGUAGE STUDY
AMSTERDAM STUDIES IN THE THEORY AND
HISTORY OF LINGUISTIC SCIENCE
General Editor
E.F. KONRAD KOERNER
(University of Ottawa)
Series IV – CURRENT ISSUES IN LINGUISTIC THEORY
Advisory Editorial Board
Raimo Anttila (Los Angeles); Lyle Campbell (Christchurch, N.Z.)
John E. Joseph (Edinburgh); Manfred Krifka (Austin, Tex.)
Hans-Heinrich Lieb (Berlin); E. Wyn Roberts (Vancouver, B.C.);
Hans-Jürgen Sasse (Köln)
Volume 186
Olga Mišeska Tomic´ and Milorad Radovanovic´ (eds.)
History and Perspectives of Language Study
Papers in honor of Ranko Bugarski
HISTORY AND
PERSPECTIVES OF
LANGUAGE STUDY
PAPERS IN HONOR OF RANKO BUGARSKI
Edited by
OLGA MIŠESKA TOMIC´
MILORAD RADOVANOVIC´
University of Novi Sad

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Table of Contents
In Honor of Ranko Bugarski: On Language in Context — Towards
Integration in Linguistics ix
Ranko Bugarski: Select List of Publications, 1968–1999 xv
PI
TowardstheHistoryofLanguageStudy
The Impact of the Relationship Between Language, Thought, and
Action on the Applied Potential of Approaches to the Study of
Language 3
WolfgangKühlwein
Historical Linguistics in Time 43
LjubišaRajic´
Two Approaches to Morphological Typology and the Diachronic
Characterization and Comparison of Languages 71
LászlóDezsö
The Amnesic Syndromes of Structuralism 85
DubravkoŠkiljan
Saussure’s View of the Value of Diachrony 101
W.KeithPercival
J.R. Firth and the Coursdelinguistiquegénérale: A Historiographical

Sketch 115
E.F.K.Koerner
viii TABLEOFCONTENTS
PII
TowardsIntegrationinLanguageStudy
Serbo-Croatian Adjective-Declension Nouns and Viggo Brøndal’s
Principle of Compensation 133
WaylesBrowne
The Markedness Principle and the Slavic Color Vocabulary 141
MilkaIvic´
The Semantics of a Hero 147
JacekFisiakandCamielHamans
Clitics and Lexical Features in Generative Grammar 157
OlgaMišeskaTomic´
Preterite and Perfect in Modern English 171
AndersAhlqvist
PIII
TowardsLanguageStudyinContext
Forty Years of Evolution in Contact Linguistics 185
PeterH.NeldeandPeterJ.Weber
Historical-Primary Etymology vs. Secondary Etymology of
Anglicisms in European Languages 205
RudolfFilipovic´
Language Issues in Ethnic Studies: Research Approach in Some
Slovenian Studies 217
AlbinaNec´akLük
A Diachronic Approach to Sociolinguistics: Language Use in Selected
Plays from Croatia 235
GeorgeThomas
A Possible Sociolinguistic Universal 257

DunjaJutronic´
A Sketch for a Chronicle of (Anti-)Prescriptivism 271
DamirKalogjera
Name Index 285
Subject Index 289
In Honor of Ranko Bugarski
On Language in Context — Towards
Integration in Linguistics*
This book is dedicated to a man who is regarded as one of the best and most
influential contemporary Yugoslav linguists1 and enjoys an undisputed interna-
tional reputation both in the field of linguistic theory and of its application.
Ranko Bugarski is a professor of English and general linguistics at the
University of Belgrade. He was born in Sarajevo in 1933, where he received his
primary,secondaryandtertiaryeducation,graduatingattheFacultyofPhilosophy
of the University of Sarajevo (Department of Germanic Studies) in 1957. In the
academicyear1962–63hedidpostgraduateworkatUniversityCollegeLondon,
andin1966–67hewasaVisitingScholaratColumbiaUniversity,NewYork.In
1969 he obtained a Ph.D. degree in Linguistics at the University of Belgrade.
Since 1970 Ranko Bugarski has been teaching Introduction to Language
Study,EnglishSyntax,TranslationTheory,GeneralLinguisticsandSociolinguis-
tics at the Faculty of Philology in Belgrade, first as Assistant Professor and
subsequently as Associate Professor and Professor. He has supervised 10 Ph.D.
dissertations and over 40 M.A. theses, and has served as head of the Depart-
ments of English and General Linguistics. He has taken part in and organized
numerous important scientific gatherings in the field of linguistics and related
disciplines, has been the editor or coeditor of many national and international
journals, and a member of numerous respectable national and international
scientific instituti ons and societies. Hehas lefta significant imprint on the study
oflanguageatthetimewhentraditionalphilologywastransformedintostructural
* These two phrases, which actually correspond to the titles of two of Bugarski’s most recent
books,expresstheauthor’slinguisticcredo.
1. RankoBugarskiis,forexample,themostcitedauthorinthebookYugoslavGeneralLinguistics
(Radovanovic´ ed.,Amsterdam&Philadelphia:Benjamins,1989).
x INHONOUROFRANKOBUGARSKI
andgenerativelinguisticsandhasmadeanotablecontributioninmanyinterdisci-
plinary enterprises.
TheshapingofBugarskiasalinguisttookplaceduringanarguably“golden
age” of linguistics — from the fifties to the seventies of the last century of the
millennium which is drawing to an end. Since the seventies he has published
over 300 items.2
In addition to his original research, his linguistic writings have had two
generalaims:(a)presentingtotheYugoslavlinguisticaudience thetheoretically
andmethodologicallymostrelevantlinguistictrends,schools,techniques,notions,
ideasandterms;3and(b)acquaintingtheinternationallinguisticcommunitywith
pertinent Yugoslav language issues.4 In doing so, he has endeavored to stay
impartial; hehasnotsubscribedtoanyofthe numerousversionsof structuralor
generative linguistic theories flourishing during the past decades.
The list of linguistic disciplines with which Ranko Bugarski has been
involved is impressive, including English grammar, linguistic theory, history of
linguistics, descriptive and contrastive linguistics, applied linguistics, socioling-
uistics, language planning, psycholinguistics, translation theory, written lan-
guage… The titles of his books, presented in chronological order, illustrate this
range: Predlozi over, under, above, below i beneath u savremenom engleskom
jeziku [The Prepositions over,under,above,below and beneath in Contemporary
English] (1969, 1996),5 Jezik i lingvistika [Language and Linguistics] (1972,
1984, 1996), Lingvistikaocˇoveku [Linguistics about Man] (1975, 1983, 1996),
Jezik u društvu [Language in Society] (1986, 1996), Lingvistika u primeni
[Linguistics in Application] (1986, 1996), Uvoduopštulingvistiku [Introduction
to General Linguistics] (1989, 1991, 1995, 1996), Jezici [Languages] (1993,
1996, 1997), Jezikodmiradorata [Language from Peace to War] (1994, 1995,
1997), Pismo [Writing] (1996, 1997), Jezikukontekstu [Language in Context]
(1997), Ka jedinstvulingvistike [Towards the Unity of Linguistics] (1997), Jezik
2. Aselectionofhisbibliographyfollowsthisintroduction.
3. In the seventies, along with the translations of Ferdinand de Saussure and of some works of
RomanJakobsonandNoamChomsky,MilkaIvic´’sPravciulingvistici[TrendsinLinguistics]and
RankoBugarski’sJezikilingvistika[LanguageandLinguistics]werethebasicsourceofinformation
onlinguisticsattheuniversitiesofformerYugoslavia.
4. AveryimportantcontributioninthisrespectistheconferenceLanguagePlanninginYugoslavia,
which, along with Celia Hawkesworth, he organized in London in 1989. The results of this
conferencearepresentedinBugarski&Hawkesworth1992.
5. This book is a written up version of the author’s Ph. D. dissertation, which back in the late
sixtiesforeshadowedthebasictenetsofcognitivelinguistics.