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This deficiency is all the more tragic because syntactic theoreticians elsewhere had long argued in favor of recognizing underlying structures in syntax. I cite only the German scholar, Erwin Koschmieder, because of the high regard he enjoyed among readers of German and because of the ready accessibility of his writings. When, for example, one opens the col­ lection of his essays, published in 1965, one finds articles on the follow­ ing topics, listed here with the original year of publication: "On the De­ termination of the Function of Grammatical Categories" (1945); "The Noetic (=Cognitive) Bases of Syntax" (1951); "Concerning the Relations between Language and Logic" (1951); "The Mathematization of Lin­ guistics" (1956); "The Universal in Syntax" (1959).

Analytic Syntax. Copenhagen: Levin & Munksgaard. Katz, Jerrold J. 1981. Language and Other Abstract Objects. : Rowman and Littlefield. Koschmieder, Erwin. 1965. Beiträge zur allgemeinen Syntax. Heidelberg: Winter. Lamb, Sydney M. 1981. On the aims of linguistics. In James E. Copeland and Philip W. Davis, eds. The Seventh LACUS Forum 1980. : Hornbeam Press. , ed. 1967. A Reader in Nineteenth-Century His­ torical Indo-European Linguistics. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Osthoff, Hermann, and Karl Brugmann.

36) vorsetzen können: 'Welchen Sinn haben alle die tausende von Lautgesetzen, so lange sie isoliert bleiben, so lange sie nicht in höhere Ordnungen aufge­ löst werden? Sie dienen zum Teil und nur aushülfsweise der Aufhellung von Völkerverwandschaften und culturellen Beziehungen; aber zunächst müssen sie doch innerhalb der Sprachwissenschaft selbst verarbeitet werden, in dem Einzelnen müssen wir das Allgemeine finden lernen, und demnach ist auch die Erkenntnis einer Thatsache, welche das ganze Sprachleben beherrscht, von weit grösserer Wichtigkeit als die Erkenntniss irgend welcher besonderer Erscheinungsformen'" (1897: X-XI).

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