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From: sslyjim@ucl.ac.uk (Mr Jim Tyson)
Subject: Re: Stratificational Linguistics
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Date: Fri, 9 Dec 1994 16:58:11 GMT
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In article <3c3dgs$cq7@pipe3.pipeline.com> teej@pipeline.com (Thomas Sherlock) writes:
>In sci.lang d-hoopingarner@gvsu.edu (Dennie Hoopingarner) said: 
> 
> 
>>Does anyone know how widely-spread the school of Stratificational
>Linguistics  
>>is?  How many linguistics subscribe to this view?  What are the opinions
>on  
>>this approach?  Just curious. 
>> 
>>DSH 
> 
> 
>I don't have an answer to any of your question.  In fact, i have one more
>question: 
>could define Stratificational Linguistics?  

In one e-mail message?  Even Lamb's monograph on the subject was longer than
that.  If I remember, SG/SL shared some notions with Tagmemics (those were
the days, good old Father Cook's handy little intro...), including a similar
conception of emic and etic.  Somewhere in there was an idea of a linguistic
description involving a number of connected levels or strata...at this level
of generalisation I might as well be talking HPSG


>And would you know who was the
>first linguists to suggest this approach? 
> 

I have a vague memory that SG/SL was the brainchild of Sydney Lamb and
I remember he wrote an outline.  Geoffrey Sampson wrote a description of
the english number system using an SG/SL approach.

Anybody know anything more?  I have the monograph at home and if you like
I will post the bib. details.

Jim Tyson



