Projective Syntax: Theory and Applications

by Probal Dasgupta

English 254IntroductionThis monograph presents its initial in chapter 1, outlines its conceptual and cultural presuppositions in chapters 2 and 3, develops the thesis into a partial theoretical account in chapter 4, and exemplifies some applications to stylistic and to lexical studies in chapter 5 and 6 respectively.Reader familiar with the idiom of contemporary writing in literary theory may to call this monograph a contribution from structuralism, or from it negative aspects, is too general an endeavour to be designated by such a specific or context-bound name. The neo-classical broadening of the scope of linguistics today is part of a broader realignment that brings theoretical study and empirical or practical application closer together. In this introduction, let us take a general look at the background on which the whole monograph is based.Every science has a dynamic programme at heart. This programme organically combines the theoretical urge to discover new phenomena (and to invent new ways of handling them) with the practical desire to increase our ability to manage our lives, especially to overcome those problems which the scientific method can help overcome. AS one of the sciences, linguistics too has the twin shape or reshape this world of language and trying to shape or reshape this world in accordance with peoples needs or wishes. Hence the two sectors pure and applied. So understood, the entire science can only grow as a whole.The need to coordinate the various wings of the joint enterprise arises in the context of this dynamic programme of science. It is in the joint interest of both halves of a science pure and applied to ensure that they should grow together. The matter is neither purely practical nor purely theoretical. At a given moment i

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Published January 1, 1989