The Justification of Linguistic Hypotheses: A Study of Nondemonstrative Inference in Transformational Grammar (Janua Linguarum. Series Maior, 84)

We wish to thank various people and institutions for the assistance we have received from them in the course of preparing this book. Through the kind offices of Professor H. Schultink of the University of Utrecht Rudolf Botha was able to spend some months as a visiting lecturer at the Instituut A.W. de Groot voor Algemene Taalwetenschap. We are grateful for the opportunities of discussion and for the ample library facilities enjoyed during this time. Particular thanks must go to the Principal of the University of Stellenbosch, Professor J.N. de Villiers, for two generous grants towards the costs of academic visits to The Netherlands. The financial assistance of the Human Sciences Research Council of South Africa towards the costs of the research reported on in this book is hereby acknowledged. Opinions expressed or conclusions reached are those of the authors and are not to be regarded as a reflection of the opinions or conclusions of the Human Sciences Research Council. For additional financial assistance we thank the Netherlands Ministry of Education and Sciences. Valuable editorial assistance came from Hanna Botha and from Rusandré Hendrikse. Finally, we hardly know how to express adequately the debt of gratitude which we owe to our typists, Mrs. L. Gildenhuys and Mrs. I. le Roux.

Schon seit ihrer Gründung in den 1970er-Jahren ist die Reihe Germanistische Linguistik (RGL) exponiertes Forum des Faches, dessen Namen sie im Titel führt. Hinsichtlich der thematischen Breite (Sprachebenen, Varietäten, Kommunikationsformen, Epochen), der Forschungsperspektiven (Theorie und Empirie, Grundlagenforschung und Anwendung, Inter- und Transdisziplinarität) und des methodologischen Spektrums ist die Reihe offen angelegt. Das Aufgreifen neuer Trends hat in ihr ebenso Platz wie das Fortführen von Bewährtem. Die Publikationsformen reichen von Monographien und Sammelbänden bis zu Wörterbüchern.

Wissenschaftlicher Beirat (ab November 2011):

Prof. Dr. Karin Donhauser (Berlin)
Prof. Dr. Stephan Elspaß (Augsburg)
Prof. Dr. Helmuth Feilke (Gießen)
Prof. Dr. Jürg Fleischer (Marburg)
Prof. Dr. Stephan Habscheid (Siegen)
Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Harnisch (Passau)

PREFACE CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION 2. NONDEMONSTRATIVE INFERENCE 3. NONDEMONSTRATIVE FORMS OF ARGUMENT IN TRANSFORMATIONAL GRAMMAR 4. QUESTIONS OF EXTERNAL EVIDENCE IN TRANSFORMATIONAL GRAMMAR 5. QUESTIONS OF INTERNAL EVIDENCE IN TRANSFORMATIONAL GRAMMAR 6. QUESTIONS OF ACCEPTABILITY IN TRANSFORMATIONAL GRAMMAR 7. CONCLUSION BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX