Fenomenul analogiei şi lingvistica contemporană: de la incriminare la reabilitare

Abstract

Starting from the remark that the whole linguistic tradition made use of the "services" of analogy, in one way or another, explicitly or implicitly, even if there were not always convergent views on the nature of
this phenomenon and on its effects within the language, our paper presents the attitude of modern linguistics, in the second half of the 20th c., towards analogy as a linguistic organizing and creative factor. We are interested especially in analyzing the way in which the problem of analogy was handled
by the representatives of two important linguistic trends: generativism and cognitivism. Thus, if in the first case we can speak of an attitude of rejection and even denial of the importance of analogy in grammar, minimizing its effects even within the processes of language change, in the second case, the role and importance of the analogy phenomenon in the language functioning and organization will be re-evaluated and positively appreciated.