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    <p>I am sure that what I am about to do here is completely
      inappropriate on this list. In the interest of improving
      communication among us, allow me nevertheless to use the message
      by Hans Götzsche as support: If you think you need to use the
      (mathematical and logical) term 'argument' in a context dealing
      with grammar, then please at least make it  clear whether an
      argument occupies a role in semantic relationality or a syntactic
      function in valency. Just one example: English <i>dine</i> has
      two semantic roles, the eater and the thing eaten (which may be
      called, i.a., agent and patient). It has one dependent controlled
      by its valency, taking the form of a subject and representing the
      eater. How many arguments does it have?</p>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 21.08.2023 um 08:03 schrieb Hans
      Götzsche:<br>
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              Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hans Götzsche
              <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:goetzsche@ikp.aau.dk"><goetzsche@ikp.aau.dk></a><br>
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              Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Re: [Lingtyp]
                argument structure</b><br>
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              </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font,
              Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">21 August 2023 at
              15.44.46 CEST<br>
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              </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font,
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              <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:panovmeister@gmail.com"><panovmeister@gmail.com></a><br>
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                Dear Vladimir,</div>
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                allow me a late comment. I have no remarks on Christian
                Lehman’s comment, so I shall only mention that the
                notion of ‘argument’ in theoretical linguistics has, to
                my knowledge, ‘slipped through the back door’, via
                formal approaches, from mathematics, presumably 1865
                (see *), and later computation theory; meaning</div>
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                <span style="font-kerning: none">An independent variable
                  of a function</span><span style="font-style: normal;
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                <span style="font-kerning: none">I first encountered the
                  technical use of the word
                  <i>argument</i> at my ‘first course in formal logic’
                  (many years ago), and the use of the term in
                  linguistics is one of the reasons why I decided to
                  develop ‘my own’ nomenclature in formal syntax. As is
                  well known the way we, as linguists, use the myriad of
                  technical terms depends on what club (guild,
                  brotherhood, you choose) we are members of, and taken
                  as a set of words covering all bits and pieces of (by
                  some called) “the language sciences” the set is full
                  of inconsistences, and sometimes contradictions. Thus,
                  it is not quite true that “we all use the term
                  “argument structure””, and I only use the word
                  <i>argument</i> in the context of formal logic. The
                  aim of my development mentioned above, which was
                  published in</span></div>
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                <span style="font-kerning: none; background-color:
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                was to establish a nomenclature that was both consistent
                and would be able to cover all language domains, from
                speech sounds to semantics (but, so far, not pragmatics;
                which I prefer to see as a matter of cultural
                codifications). This was in line with the well known and
                acknowledged Danish tradition in Theoretical Linguistics
                (some scholars remember Rasmus Rask and Karl Verner, to
                name a few) and it was based on ideas by Otto Jespersen
                and Louis Hjelmslev – as for the formal systems – and
                the empirical achievements of the grammarian Paul
                Diderichsen. My suggestions were not all cheered by
                Danish linguistists, but the formal system – comparable
                to, e.g.,
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                  Montague grammar – was the first and only amalgamation
                  of Hjelmslev’s <i>Glossematics</i> and the
                  descriptive tradition of Danish syntax.</span></div>
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                <span style="font-kerning: none">I once read a ‘Dear
                  Sir’ letter to a Danish newspaper in which the writer
                  offered the opinion (in translation): “why don’t
                  everybody use words the way I do; it would make
                  everything much easier”. But, of course, adopting such
                  a view would be impertinent.</span></div>
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                <span style="font-kerning: none">Best wishes,</span></div>
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                <span style="font-kerning: none">Hans Götzsche (MA,PhD)</span></div>
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                    moz-do-not-send="true">terminology - What is the
                    sense of using word "argument", for inputs of a
                    function? - English Language & Usage Stack
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                  <div>On 19 Aug 2023, at 12.11, Vladimir Panov
                    <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:panovmeister@gmail.com"><panovmeister@gmail.com></a> wrote:</div>
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                      <div dir="ltr">Dear colleagues,
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                        <div>I have a very general question to you. We
                          all use the term "argument structure" and we
                          are used to semantic labels like A, S or P or
                          syntactic labels like subject, direct and
                          indirect object. Many linguistis, especially
                          those adhering to "formal" approaches, would
                          argue that there are also adjuncts which are
                          not arguments.</div>
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                        <div>Is anybody aware of any attempts to
                          seriously challenge the adequacy of the very
                          notion of "arguments" in general? After all,
                          ir seems that there are languages which do not
                          encode or encode little the "roles" of named
                          entities (noun phrases, pronouns etc.)
                          anywhere in utterance, especially in
                          colloquial language, or encode entities like
                          the addressee rather than the agent or the
                          patient. My intuition tells me that there
                          might be such critical works in the traditions
                          of usage-based linguistics, interactional
                          linguistics, conversation analysis or
                          linguistic anthropology but I have found very
                          little. Actually, I've only discovered the
                          very recent Heine's book in which he argues
                          for a broader understanding of argument
                          structure which includes speech situation
                          participants - a very interestinng view. So am
                          looking for more research in this spirit.</div>
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                        <div>I'm sorry if it sounds a bit confusing but
                          if anything like that comes to you mind I'll
                          be happy if you can share it.</div>
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                        <div>Best,</div>
                        <div>Vladimir Panov</div>
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                        <div><i>I condemn the Russian agression in
                            Ukraine</i></div>
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      <p style="font-size:90%">Prof. em. Dr. Christian Lehmann<br>
        Rudolfstr. 4<br>
        99092 Erfurt<br>
        <span style="font-variant:small-caps">Deutschland</span></p>
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            <td>Tel.:</td>
            <td>+49/361/2113417</td>
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            <td>E-Post:</td>
            <td><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:christianw_lehmann@arcor.de">christianw_lehmann@arcor.de</a></td>
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            <td>Web:</td>
            <td><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.christianlehmann.eu">https://www.christianlehmann.eu</a></td>
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