Esa Itkonen
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Esa Itkonen's Degrees
- PhD Linguistics University of Helsinki
- Masters Linguistics University of Helsinki
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Esa Itkonen is a Finnish linguist, philosopher and language theorist. He is professor emeritus of general linguistics at the University of Turku. Itkonen has authored several publications on linguistic methodology, philosophy of linguistics, history of linguistics, and linguistic typology. He has defended a humanist approach to linguistics, criticising sociobiology, generative grammar, and Cognitive Linguistics.
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- Analogy as structure and process (2005) (115)
- Grammatical Theory and Metascience: A critical investigation into the methodological and philosophical foundations of 'autonomous' linguistics (1978) (97)
- Grammatical theory and metascience (1978) (94)
- Universal history of linguistics (1991) (50)
- The central role of normativity in language and linguistics (2008) (46)
- The shared mind (2008) (43)
- Causality in Linguistic Theory : A Critical Investigation into the Philosophical and Methodological Foundations of Non-Autonomous Linguistics (1983) (34)
- 1. Intersubjectivity: What makes us human? (2008) (28)
- On the 'Rationalist' Conception of Linguistic Change (1984) (26)
- Qualitative vs. Quantitative Analysis in Linguistics (1980) (22)
- Iconicity, analogy, and universal grammar (1994) (22)
- Short-term and long-term teleology in linguistic change (1982) (19)
- Concerning the generative paradigm (1996) (19)
- Linguistics and metascience (1977) (17)
- The social ontology of linguistic meaning (1997) (15)
- The Concept of Linguistic Intuition (1981) (15)
- Functionalism yes, biologism no (1999) (10)
- An Assessment of (Mentalist) Cognitive Semantics (2016) (10)
- Concerning the synthesis between intuition-based study of norms and observation-based study of corpora (2005) (10)
- Functional Explanation and its Uses (2013) (9)
- The use and misuse of the principle of axiomatics in linguistics (1976) (9)
- On Coseriu’s legacy (2011) (9)
- Grammaticalization as an analogue of hypothetico-deductive thinking (2002) (8)
- Transformational grammar and the philosophy of science (1975) (7)
- What makes us human (2008) (7)
- Philosophy of Linguistics (2013) (6)
- Language and other abstract objects: Jerrold Katz, Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1981. 251 pp (1983) (5)
- THREE FALLACIES THAT RECUR IN LINGUISTIC ARGUMENTATION (2012) (5)
- A critique of the ’post-structuralist’ conception of language (1988) (5)
- Tolkaappiyam : The basic work of ancient tamil language and culture (2000) (5)
- Rationality As An Explanatory Principle In Linguistics (1981) (4)
- 16. Hermeneutics and generative linguistics (2019) (3)
- Norms and normativity in language and linguistics (2019) (3)
- Reply to Dahl (1980) (3)
- Concerning the scope of normativity (2019) (3)
- On explanation in linguistics (2014) (3)
- What is methodology (and history) of linguistics good for, epistemologically speaking? (1991) (3)
- Concerning the universality of the Noun vs. Verb distionction (2001) (2)
- Linguistics as a System of Distinct Types of Ontology-Cum-Methodology (2002) (2)
- Remarks on polysynthesis (1999) (2)
- 6. Implications for the Philosophy of Science (1991) (1)
- Change of language as a prototype for change of linguistics (1982) (1)
- Intuition and beyond (2019) (1)
- “The whole is greater than the sum of its parts” - True, false or meaningless? (2017) (1)
- Concerning the status of implicational universale (1998) (1)
- Comment on Hammarström's ‘is linguistics a natural science?’ (1978) (1)
- 5. Concluding remarks (2005) (0)
- 5.6 CONCLUSION (1991) (0)
- 2.2 Linguistics before Pāṇini (1991) (0)
- 2. The idea of ‘Hermeneutics’ (1978) (0)
- 3.8 The Aftermath (1991) (0)
- 1. The idea of ‘Positivism’ (1978) (0)
- 4.6 Residual Issues (1991) (0)
- 5.1 Linguistic Thinking in Greek Philosophy (1991) (0)
- 4.1 The Cultural Context of Arab Linguistics (1991) (0)
- 2. Analogy inside linguistics (2005) (0)
- Comment on Klaas Willem’s contribution (2014) (0)
- 4.2 General Characteristics of the Arab Linguistic Tradition (1991) (0)
- On (sign) language, music, and anti-modularity (1998) (0)
- 2.5 Conclusion (1991) (0)
- 3. Analogy and/or overlap between language and other cognitive domains (2005) (0)
- The Central Role of Imagination in Linguistics, Philosophy and Logic (2019) (0)
- 5.2 The Alexandrian School (1991) (0)
- 3.4 The Taoist School (1991) (0)
- 8. Language and grammar (1978) (0)
- 2.1 The Relation of Linguistic Theory to Hinduism (1991) (0)
- 7. The ineliminability of linguistic normativity (1978) (0)
- MODULARITY: THREE ARGUMENTS AGAINST, ONE PSEUDO-ARGUMENT FOR (2013) (0)
- 6.2 Relativism vs. Universalism (1991) (0)
- 6.1 The Notion of Progress (1991) (0)
- EINFUHLUNG (= 'RE-ENACTMENT') AS THE BASIC METHOD OF TYPOLOGICAL LINGUISTICS (2013) (0)
- 2.4 Linguistics after Pāṇini (1991) (0)
- Context as other minds: The pragmatics of sociality, cognition and communication (review) (2008) (0)
- Index of terms (1978) (0)
- 3.9 Conclusion (1991) (0)
- FALLACIES OF DECONSTRUCTION: CONTRADICTION IN LLTERATURE AND CONTRADICTION IN LINGUISTICS (1991) (0)
- 4. Analogy (mainly) outside linguistics (2005) (0)
- Three Models for Linguistics: Newtonian Mechanics, Darwinism, Axiomatics (2020) (0)
- 4.4 Metatheoretical Implications (1991) (0)
- 10. Grammar and logic (1978) (0)
- 5. The concept of language (1978) (0)
- 3.1 Confucius (1991) (0)
- Trevor Pateman, Language in mind and language in society. Studies in linguistic reproduction . Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987. Pp. x + 194. (1988) (0)
- 9. The methodology of grammar (1978) (0)
- 3.3 The School of Names (1991) (0)
- 3.7 The Legalist School (1991) (0)
- CONCERNING THE PHILOSOPHY OF PHONOLOGY (2013) (0)
- A Reply to Douay-Soublin (1994) (0)
- 4.7 Conclusion (1991) (0)
- Remarks on the Typology of Adpositions (2014) (0)
- On explaining language change. By ROGER LASS. (Cambridge studies in lin (2016) (0)
- 3.5 Mo Tzu and His School (1991) (0)
- 6. The basis of the nonempirical nature of grammar (1978) (0)
- 4.3 Central Aspects of the Arab Syntactic Theory (1991) (0)
- 4.5 Sībawaihi's Conception of ‘Discourse-Based’ Linguistics (1991) (0)
- 3.2 Mencius (1991) (0)
- 1. The concept of analogy (2005) (0)
- 5.4 Grammatical Theory 1500–1900 (1991) (0)
- 5.5 The 20th Century (1991) (0)
- 3. 20-th century linguistic theories: A brief survey (1978) (0)
- 11. Grammar and philosophy (1978) (0)
- 5.3 Linguistics in the Middle Ages (1991) (0)
- 4. Philosophical foundations of the concept of language (1978) (0)
- 2.3 Pāṇini (1991) (0)
- 6.3 Externalism vs. Internalism (1991) (0)
- Published in Logos and Language 2004: 21–33 TYPOLOGICAL EXPLANATION AND ICONICITY (2008) (0)
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