UNIT 11 INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTIC PARADIGMS

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UNIT 1: INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTIC PARADIGMS 1- The notion of paradigm The term “paradigm” is a basic one in Linguistics to refer to the set of relationships a linguistic unit bears with other units that could appear in a specific context, for example, the paradigm of verbs of movement (went,ran...) that fit in a context like: John__to Paris Or the set of grammatically conditioned forms all derived from a single room or stem, as the paradigm of the irregular verb “to sing”: sing/sang/sung The notion of a scientific paradigm, a crucial concept to the Philosophy of Science. Scientific statements and inductive inference Science is the result of observation. There are various forms to understand the word “observe” but I will focus in the sense where observation is understood as a systematic performance of a series of procedures for analyzing particular phenomena. This implies a recurrents series of steps, places...; we also need instruments to keep a record of the results so that we can analyze them as many times as we need or wish. The recorded material resulting from observation, in this technical sense, is called data. Every single observation produces a basic statement, but in orde...