European Yearbook of International Economic Law 2016

In: European Yearbook of International Economic Law 7

In: Lecture Notes in Morphogenesis Ser.

Abstract

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Preliminary Questions -- What Does "Complexity" Mean? -- Varieties of Complexity -- Complexity in Linguistics -- Background: Computational Grammars and Generativity -- Critique of the Generativist Reason: Thom and Petitot's Semiophysics -- Limited Recursion and Naturalization of the Meaning -- Rethinking the Generativity of Languages from the Use -- Oscillations and Gaps -- Syntax in Semiophysics -- Significant Intersections: Grammars and Cognitive Semantics -- Toward a «complex» Science of the Natural Language: the Semiophysics' Inheritance -- Problems Inspired by a Complex Science of the Natural Language -- Gestalt Compositionality -- Lexical Polysemy and Semiogenesis -- Local Models and Qualitative Mathematics of the Continuous -- Conclusion -- Complexity and Linguistic Theory: Epistemological Questions -- 1 The Game of Complexity and Linguistic Theorization -- 1.1 Introduction: An Age-Old Debate -- 1.2 The Nomothetic Approach: Reduction to Simplicity and Determinant Laws -- 1.3 Complexity, Replayed in the Models of Complex Systems -- 1.4 Emergence: Between Determinant Judgment and Reflective Judgment -- 1.5 The Middle Path of Complex Systems: Assessment for Semiolinguistics -- 1.6 What Do the Facts Tell Us? a Few Remarks -- 1.7 Concerning a Few Linguistic Theories -- 1.8 Conclusion -- References -- 2 Continuity in the Interactions Between Linguistic Units -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Topological and Dynamic Models in Linguistics: From "Autopoiesis" to the Notion of "Instruction" -- 2.2.1 Short Review of Some Models: Autopoietic, Gestaltist, Morphogenetic -- 2.2.2 The Articulation Between Global and Local Dimensions -- 2.2.3 Instruction: A Dynamical and Topological Notion -- 2.3 Continuity, Instruction and the Online Processing of Meaning -- 2.3.1 Two Fundamental Hypotheses Concerning Meaning.