Introduction to Theory

Giorgio Buccellati – June 2010

Introduction

The volume of the Grammar (“The Theory”) is not given here in its entirety, as already explain in the Overview.

Nevertheless, this volume offers a glimpse on the theoretical frame of the GRAMMAR (linking to the printed volume A Critique of Archaeological Reason and to its companion website CAR)

As a matter of general interest, one will find here the compact and the detailed Table of Contents.

Compact Table of Contents

1. History
2. Concept
3. The theory (CAR)

Detailed Table of Contents

1. History
1.1: Background
1.2: Early formalizations
1.3: Consolidation of the theory
1.4: Public presentations
1.5: Current formalization
1.6: Publications
1.7: Field Encoding Manual (1996)

2. Concept
2.1: A digital book
2.2: Notion
2.3: Fundamentals
2.4: Grammatical power

3. The theory (CAR)
3.1: Overview
3.2: Compact Table of Contents
3.3: Detailed Table of Contents