Grammar: bibliographical review

Giorgio Buccellati – August 2026

The structuralist turn

This view of grammar is rooted in a series of profound transformations in linguistic thought, from Port-Royal in the 1600 to De Saussure, Chomsky and beyond, for instance into pragmatics and interactional linguistics.

see CGPT

Epistemics

Hermeneutics

References

The grammatical approach proposed here differs substantially from the way in which one normally looks at archaeology from an epistemological point of view. See for example Bednarik 2003 [add titles]

B 1996 OB grammar

Port-Royal, De Saussure, Chomsky

“grammar” in other fields Meshel 2014

Stiny, George, and James Gips. 1972. “Shape Grammars and the Generative Specification of Painting and Sculpture.” In Information Processing 71: Proceedings of IFIP Congress 71, edited by C. V. Freiman, 1460–1465. Amsterdam: North-Holland.

Kress, Gunther, and Theo van Leeuwen. 2006. Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design. 2nd ed. London/New York: Routledge.

Propp, Vladimir. 1968. Morphology of the Folktale. 2nd ed. Translated by Laurence Scott; revised and edited by Louis A. Wagner. Austin: University of Texas Press. Originally published in Russian in 1928.

Todorov, Tzvetan. 1969. Grammaire du Décaméron. The Hague: Mouton.

Lévi-Strauss, Claude. 1963. Structural Anthropology. Translated by Claire Jacobson and Brooke Grundfest Schoepf. New York: Basic Books. French original, Anthropologie structurale, Paris: Plon, 1958.

Three chapters deserve particular attention: “Structural Analysis in Linguistics and in Anthropology” “Language and the Analysis of Social Laws” “The Structural Study of Myth” The first is particularly pertinent because Lévi-Strauss asks explicitly what anthropology can appropriate from structural linguistics. The volume presents his structural method across kinship, social organization, religion, mythology, and art.

interactional linguistics (Minna) ~ presentation and hermeneutics – see maieutics

see pragmatics and maieutics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_archaeology